September is always a weird month…  It’s part summer part fall.  First snows of the year happen, but generally melt away before any real snowpacks can form.

Regardless, September is the month that gets us fired up for ski and snowboard season.  Powder Magazine is out, ski movies are touring, first snows of the year are falling, and coming winter holds every possibility.

NOAA’s PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK FOR SEPTEMBER:

• NOAA’s September outlook is forecasting above average precipitation in Arizona, southern Alaska, and a bit of southern Utah.  
• Below average precipitation if forecast in the Pacific Northwest and the deep South.

NOAA’s TEMPERATURE OUTLOOK FOR SEPTEMBER:

• NOAA’s September outlook is forecasting above average temperatures in the entire Western USA, the southeast, all of Alaska, and Maine.  
• Below average temperatures are forecast nowhere.