After a Cold October, What’s Coming For Winter…. Cold October and Looking For Snow…..

by Mark on November 10, 2009

in Weather

NOAA has recently posted information about what a cold October it was – here’s the link.

Before the onslaught of emails chiding our mere mention of global climatology – save the pixels and bandwidth – we’ve heard the pitch of how the climate is still heating up despite it seemingly getting cooler.  I’ll see your hyperventilating climate change expert and raise you two skeptical scientists.

Shifting gears – around the region we’ve had two winter seasons in a row with very, very impressive snow packs that have produced very fishable flows throughout the fishing season; hell, we’ve even had to deal with real run-off seasons these past two years.

Any chance of it happening again this year?  Not likely per the current climatology forecasts; the temperature and precip forecasts follow for the December / January / February timeline.  We’ve been tracking their predictions for the past several years and they’ve been astoundingly accurate.  I’m headed to the bookstore this evening and will check the Farmers’ Almanac.

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