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NOAA’s Official Outlook for Winter 2015/16 in the USA

NOAA precipitation forecast for winter 2015/16. NOAA expects higher than average precip in the southern half of the country and drier than average conditions in the Pacific Northwest

NOAA has just released their outlook for the 2015/16 USA Winter. NOAA is now expecting strong El Nino to continue through to Spring 2015/16 and that prediction is powerfully affecting their outlook for the coming winter. This forecast looks good for skiing and riding in Calfiornia, Arizona, south Colorado, & New Mexico with above average precipitation forecast. This forecast looks bad for the Pacific Northwest, […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 20, 2015
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More Good “El Nino” News for South American Winter:

Weather information outlets are beginning to corroborate about the “ski resort section” of the Andes in South America receiving above average precipitation this southern hemisphere winter. Specifically, we are talking about the Southern Andes mountains where all the best ski resorts in South America live. In the above map, that “ski resort section” of the Andes is the southwestern part of South America that is colored in the green that correlates to “Turning Wet”. NOAA already published information saying that they expect the southern Andes to get above average […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | June 5, 2015
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NOAA’s El Nino Outlook Looking GOOD for South American Winter:

NOAA just released their Summer El Nino Outlook and it’s looking very good for South American ski resorts. When you look at the NOAA map above, find the green circle in southwestern South America. That green circle indicates a forecast of wetter than average conditions this southern winter in the southern Andes mountains. That green circle holds all the best ski resorts in Chile and Argentina including Catedral in Bariloche, Argentina and Las Lenas, Argentina. The best time to ski the Andes is approximately August 1st […]

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Sponsored | June 2, 2015
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El Niรฑo 2013

Synopsis: ENSO-neutral is favored into the Northern Hemisphere fall 2013. AUGUST 8th, 2013 UPDATE from LiveWeatherBlogs.com ENSO-neutral conditions persisted during July 2013, as reflected by near-average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central and east-central equatorial Pacific and below-average SSTs in the eastern Pacific (Fig. 1). Consistent with this pattern, weekly Niรฑo-4 and Niรฑo-3.4 values were between -0.5ยฐ and 0ยฐC, while Niรฑo-3 and Niรฑo-1+2 indices remained cooler than -0.5ยฐC (Fig. 2). The oceanic heat content (average temperature in the upper 300m of the ocean) anomalies continued to be slightly above […]

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LiveWeatherBlogs.com | September 11, 2013
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