

Things look particularly bad for the drought in the Southwest, where drought conditions are forecast to worsen over the next few months. This signals a wetter winter for parts of the Midwest and the Tennessee Valley, but drier conditions across the southern U.S. NOAAs Climate Prediction has issued its US winter weather outlook for December 2021 through February 2022, and theyre pointing to La Nias presence for a.

Gottschalck said this year’s La Niña looks like it will be a moderate (or upper-end moderate) La Niña pattern. Drier-than-average conditions are favored in south-central Alaska, southern California, the Southwest, and the Southeast. (NOAA based on NWS CPC data) La Niña and Droughtįor the second winter in a row, La Niña conditions are forecast to affect the country’s winter weather, said Gottschalck. The coldest periods will occur in early December, from late December into early January, and in mid-January and early March. Winter Outlook map for precipitation shows wetter-than-average conditions are most likely in parts of the North, primarily in the Pacific Northwest, northern Rockies, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and western Alaska. Long-Range Weather Forecast for Pacific Northwest Annual Weather Summary November 2021 to October 2022 Winter temperatures will be milder than normal, with below-normal precipitation and snowfall. This precipitation forecast has a lot do with La Niña, which has already started to settle in. A new edition of the classic gardening handbook details a simple yet highly effective gardening system, based on a grid of one-foot by one-foot squares, that produces big yields with less space and with less work than with conventional row. We’re predicting a light winter for most of us here in the United States, with warmer-than-normal temperatures in the forecast for a large part of the country.
