WINTER IS COMING And This Winter Will Defiantly Be A Winter Opposed To The Last One[2007-2008]Which Sucked As We Near The Coast Got Warm Temperatures All The Time And Barely Got Any Snow,For Example I Live In Perry Hall Maryland And Our Average Snow Is About 20 Inches And We Got Around 10 Inches Of Snow.Why Was The Winter So Bad,Because We Had A Strong La Nina That Stayed All Winter And All The Storms Went Up In The Ohio Valley And We Got All Rain.BUT This Winter Will Be A Whole Different Story As The ENSO Should Be Around Neutral,The PDO Should Be Negative Most Of The Time And The NAO Should Be Negative Most Of The Time Time And That Means It Will Be Cold A Lot More Times And The Storm Track Should Be Near The Coast So We Should Get The Snow This Winter.Here Is The Forecast For MID ATLANTICTempatures Below Average,We Will Have Some Very Big Cold Snaps Coming From Canada Which Should Get Our Temperatures Into The Teens For Most People For Highs.We MAY Have A Period Where Temperatures Are Over 10 Degrees Above Average But Wont Happen Not Much At All,We May Even Have A Period Of When Temperatures Get 20 To Even 25 Or More Degrees Below Average.Precipitation[Rain]About Average,Even With Colder Temperatures We Will Still Have A Little Bit Of Rain.Snow Above Average,We Will Have Many Snow Storms This Winter And Even A Blizzard Like Storm,I Expect A Lot Of Places To Top There Snowfall Average By More Than 15.NORTHEASTTempatures Below Average,Some Points Where Temperatures Will Get Into The Single Digits And Below.Precipatation[Rain]Average,May Get Some Rain When The Tempatures Are Above Average.Snow Above Average,Lots Of Snow But For Some Places Especially In New Eangland Not As Much As Last Year.Analogs2002-20032003-2004APPROXIMATE SNOWFALL TOTALSRICHMOND VIRGINIA 25-45 INCHES EXACT PREDICTION 36 INCHESWASHINGTON DC 30-55 INCHES EXACT PREDICTION 43 INCHESBALTIMORE/PERRY HALL MARYLAND 35-55 EXACT PREDICTION 45 INCHESPHILADELPHIA PENNSLYVANIA 35-60 INCHES EXACT PREDICTION 48 INCHESNEW YORK CITY NEW YORK 40-60 INCHES EXACT PREDICTION 50 INCHESBOSTON MASSACHUSSETS 45-65 INCHES EXACT PREDICTION 54 INCHES
HERE IS MY MONTH BY MONTH FORECAST
NOVEMBER 2008
MID ATLANTICTEMPATURES AVERAGE TO 3 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGERAIN ABOUT AVERAGESNOW AT OR JUST BELOW AVERAGEEXPECT A RAIN AND ICE STORM TO HIT AROUND THANKSGIVING,NO SNOWSTORMSNORTHEASTTEMPATURES 1 BELOW AVERAGE TO 2 ABOVE AVERAGERAIN AT OR JUST BELOW AVERAGESNOW AROUND AVERAGEEXPECT A SNOW AND ICE STORM T HIT AROUND THANKSGIVING,1 SNOWSTORM
DECEMBER 2008
MID ATLANITCTEMPATURES 1 DEGREE BELOW AVERAGE TO 4 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN AERAGE TO JUST BELOWSNOWFALL ABOVE AVERAGEEXCPECT A COUPLE OF GOOD SNOWSTORMS AND A CLIPPER TO COMENORTHEASTTEMPATURES 2 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE TO 4 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN BELOW AVERAGESNOWFALL ABOVE AVERAGESAME AS MID ATLANTICS
JANUARY 2009
MID ATLANTICTEMPATURES 2 DEGREES TO 6 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGESNOW ABOVE AVERAGEMAJUR SNOWSTORMS AND BLIZZARS ARE POSSIBLENORTHEASTTEMPATURES 3 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE TO 7 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN BELOW AVERAGESNOW ABOVE AVERAGESAME AS MID ATLANTICS.
FEBRUARY 2009
MID ATLANTICTEMPATURES 1 DEGREE ABOVE AVERAGE TO 2 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGESNOW SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGECOUPLE OF SNOW AND ICE STORMS,BUT MORE RAINSTORMS THAN DECEMBER AND JANUARYNORTHEASTTEMPATURES AVERAGE TO 3 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN AVERAGESNOW SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGESNOWSTORMS AND ICESTORMS POSSIBLE
MARCH 2009
MID ATLANTICTEMPATURES 1 TO 4 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN AVERAGESNOW ABOVE AVERAGEA COUPLE OF WEAK SNOWSTORMSNORTHEASTTEMPATURES 2 TO 5 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGERAIN SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGESNOW ABOVE AVERAGECOUPLE OF SNOWSTORMS
APRIL 2009
MID ATLANTICTEMPATURES 1 TO 4 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGERAIN ABOVE AVERAGESNOWFALL AVERAGENO SNOW[MAYBE FLURRIES OR MIXED PRECIP]NORTHEASTAVERAGE TO 3 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGERAIN SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGESNOW SLIGHTY ABOVE AVERAGEMAYBE A LIGHT SNOW OR ICE EVENT
