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National Weather Service's Winter Outlook Cites El Niño Factor: Here's What It Means For Us National Weather Service's Winter Outlook Cites El Niño Factor: Here's What It Means For Us
National Weather Service's Winter Outlook Cites El Niño Factor: Here's What It Means For Us We've heard from two farmers almanacs and AccuWeather. When it comes to predictions for the upcoming winter, the National Weather Service is now batting cleanup. The weather service is in agreement with projections by AccuWeather and the Old Farmer's Almanac that the Northeast is likely to see a mild winter with the now likely emergence of El Niño. El Niño is a large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked to a periodic warming in sea surface temperatures across the central and east-central Equatorial Pacific. What does that mean for us? “We expect El Nino to be in place in lat…