Winter 2024/25 Weather Outlook Revealed
While nobody can predict the future with 100% accuracy, meteorologists sure try, and now, they’re predicting what winter 2024-2025 will look like for the United States.
This coming winter is expected to be what’s known as a La Niña winter as opposed to an El Niño winter like we experienced last year.
As the waters in the Equatorial Pacific continue to cool, we move closer and closer to the forecast La Nina pattern that will have an impact on the winter across the United States. Seasonal data gives us a 60% chance of La Nina Conditions by the end of November. For the winter… pic.twitter.com/Mm6H8vv63f
— TDS Weather (@TDSwx) October 17, 2024
What does that mean for your winter weather? It depends where you live.
If you live in the northern part of the United States, especially in the Pacific northwest, you can expect a colder and wetter than usual winter. The rest of the northern United States, including New England, will most likely also experience a wetter than usual winter, but they may not experience a colder than usual winter. In fact, the weather might even be a little bit warmer than usual, which makes it unlikely that there will be a huge snowfall in this part of the country, yet it’s still possible.
Since this winter is expected to be a weak La Niña, the New England states may experience significant snowfall. If it were a strong La Niña, these states would most likely be too warm to experience much snow and would instead experience a lot of rain.
NOAA’s Winter Outlook came out today and a slowly building La Nina pattern will help drive the climate forecast for this Winter’s Outlook. No clear signal over St. Louis, but I’ll look over more data and have our First Alert 4 Winter Outlook in late November pic.twitter.com/o1qRPmn2pF
— Steve Templeton (@SteveTempleton) October 17, 2024
Meanwhile, the southern part of the United States is expected to have a warmer and drier winter than usual. This includes Southern California, which desperately needs rain in the next few months in order to avoid wild fires and drought conditions.
Watch the video below to learn more about what a weak La Niña weather pattern means for you and why these predictions may or may not be accurate.