These Regions Can Expect Colder-Than-Usual Winter Weather – Bundlezy

These Regions Can Expect Colder-Than-Usual Winter Weather

What kind of winter is in store for the United States?  

Well, that depends where you live.

Of course, that’s usually the case, but for the coming months, it might be more true than usual as weather patterns emerge from sea to shining sea.

In its annual winter outlook, the National Weather Service says to expect warmer-than-usual weather in the Southeast and wetter-than-average conditions in parts of the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. 

Blame La Niña 

La Niña conditions have been detected in the Pacific Ocean, meaning cooler-than-normal temperatures of the water will have an impact on the weather in North America, at least for the next couple of months. 

That means cooler and wetter conditions in the Northern Plains with wetter conditions in the Pacific Northwest and drier conditions throughout the southern U.S. from coast to coast. 

The NWS predicts warmer-than-average temperatures to take place in the Southeast, Southwest, California and the Atlantic coast all the way up to New England. 

While most of the Great Lakes Region is expected to experience normal temperatures, the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains could be cooler than usual. 

Get out the rain gear 

From the Great Lakes down to western Kentucky and Tennessee (The Ohio River Valley), scientists expect this winter to be wetter than usual. 

That is also the case in the Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest. 

New England and the middle part of the country west of the Mississippi is expected to experience a normal amount of precipitation while the Southeast, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California should be drier than usual. 

What doe the almanac say? 

If you don’t like the scientific view of what’s coming in the next few months, The Old Farmer’s Almanac might have better news for you.

Or it could be worse, depending on where you live. 

That publication has been predicting the weather for more than two and a half centuries, and it differs from the NWS in some areas this winter

It looks for a wet winter in Florida and for most of the middle of the country to be mild and dry. 

But there is bad news for some folks: Cold, snowy conditions are expected from eastern Ohio down through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

Meanwhile, the Northeast should be mild and dry — just like Texas and the entire West Coast from the Mexican border up to Canada. 

All of the Ohio Valley is expected to be cold, as is Georgia and South Carolina according to the almanac. 

While fall officially began Sept. 22, the first day of winter is Dec. 21.

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