Several months have gone by since we took at peek at the climatology forecasts issued by NOAA/National Weather Service; having followed these forecasts now for something close to a decade here on ChiWulff, it’s actually been damned impressive how accurate they’ve been (certainly out to the 6 month timeframe in particular…).
The temp and precipitation predictions for Q1.20 are here…
And the temp and precipitation projections for March – May 2020 (prime snowpack season) are here…
Finally, careful students of weather and climate who take care to look at broad swathes of the data available understand that the ENSO (El Nino – Southern Oscillation) plays a huge role in NA’s weather and how seasonal snow pack is delivered to the Western mountain ranges. From Columbia’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, here’s the latest plotted ENSO forecasts...
