North American Winter Weather Predictions

[kristen999]

Interesting this was written in August.

Winter's Worst Cold and Snow

Overall, AccuWeather.com Chief Long-Range Meteorologist Joe Bastardi is predicting that the worst of winter's cold and snow will be from the Pacific Northwest into the northern Plains and western Great Lakes. That will put cities like Portland and Seattle that escaped with a very nice winter last year, colder and snowier this year. Fargo and Minneapolis to Green Bay will also receive above-normal winter snowfall.

Other cities predicted to receive above-normal winter snowfall include Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Seattle and Portland. Bastardi predicts severe cold will hit Alaska and western and central Canada.

"The Canadian winter will be as harsh as last year's was gentle," Bastardi said. Rest of the Article here.

Comments

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

Considering its -14 here in northern Idaho and its only *November*!... I'm in the blue area. In fact, I am BLUE in every sense. I'm freezing! LOL

yeah, I'll subscribe to this. It matches what we've heard. Higher levels of snowfall this year. Last year can't really be used as an comparison, it was *amazingly* light, we only had a couple inches of snow once. HIGHLY unusual. (and I was highly irritated that I didn't get to use my 4x4 even once... something I've already used. LOL) but before that we had 2 consecutive 100 year snowfall winters. LOL

This year, a bit above average but hopefully nothing like 2 years ago. Ugh. ;)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'm not sure I could live in such an area, yet again, were you born there? Atl to Buffalo was kind of a neat extreme adventure. Anything more and I'd high tail it out of there.

Makes you love spring and summer!

[sgafan.livejournal.com]

LOL well, this is a bit extreme for us. Yes it gets cold and yes we get snow, but not usually like this. Maybe a little bit below zero, for a few days, maybe in January, but not much.

I wasn't born here, I actually grew up in the Seattle area, though we lived in the mountains and got more snow than the Seattle area did. Its a bit more extreme here (hotter summers and colder snowier winters) but not too bad. :)

I love winter for skiing and summer for all the other outdoor things you can do! :D
Besides, I need a little 4x4 in my life. Keeps things interesting. heheheh ;)