News on Upcoming Winter Season 2014-2015

The weather channel has predicted the outcomes for this upcoming winter season. Last winter was one of the coldest recent winters the upper midwest has experienced. However, it looks like this winter may concentrate its icy chills on the people living on the east coast and gulf coast. This is mostly because weather experts are predicting a weak to moderate el nino to appear over the long winter months and possibly into some of the spring season. Experts also predict that the jet stream will be erratic this winter because of an early buildup of snow that has occurred across Eurasia already. This early buildup of snow may cause a tighter temperature gradient over Asia and ultimately end up strengthening the jet stream. Eventually it may reach the stratosphere and knock weather patterns off balance around the Northern hemisphere a few months from now. For now, forecasters have predicted the following for the next upcoming months:

November: Slightly cooler than average from New Mexico to Michigan to Georgia and points in between. Warmer than average elsewhere, but especially for the West Coast states plus Nevada, Idaho, and Montana.

December: Slightly cooler than average for Colorado, New Mexico, the Plains states from Nebraska to Texas, and the lower Mississippi River Valley. Warmer than average elsewhere, but especially in California and southern Nevada as well as the East Coast states from North Carolina to New England.

January: Cooler than average from Texas to Wisconsin and points eastward, but particularly cool from the southeast half of Texas east to the Florida Panhandle and inland as far north as the southern tip of Illinois. Warmer than average elsewhere, but especially over the Northwest, northern Rockies, and northern parts of California, Nevada, and Utah.

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Link: http://www.wunderground.com/news/winter-forecast-outlook-theweatherchannel-20141015