As time keeps rolling along we’re headed into the very earliest beginnings of the snowpack building season for those of us whose favorite rivers rely on winter’s snowfall to load water for the next season. Having played this game of reporting long range forecasts for a decade (more or less) here on Chi Wulff, the Climate Prediction Center’s work has been pretty damn reliable (they’re part of the NOAA family by the way).
The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a pretty hard winter for much of home country back in Montana, but the CPC doesn’t seem to agree…
Q4 Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts
Q1.2020 Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts
ENSO Cycle Update
Critically for the Western US (and in reality the rest of the nation as well), the ENSO cycles have huge impacts on how much and where seasonal moisture is directed. Read the current (12 September 2019) ESNO prediction and summary report here, and the ENSO cycle prediction graph summary is below…
