Whats the winter weather forecast for the USA?
Federal forecasters from the Climate Prediction Center have predicted a warmer-than-average winter for much of the USA, including most of the West, Southwest, Plains, Midwest, parts of the Northeast and northern mid-Atlantic, as well as most of Alaska. Only Hawaii is expected to have below-average temperatures. As for precipitation, wetter-than-average conditions are expected in the Southwest, Texas and most of Florida. The winter should be drier than normal in the Ohio Valley, the northern Rockies and Hawaii. The developing El Niño will be one of the forces driving this winter’s weather across the USA.
