El Niño Southern Oscillation
El Niño 2026-27! How badly will it screw winter?
We’re into the time of year littered with click bait weather outlooks. With El Niño to venture into record territory entering winter, fear mongering is approaching fever pace! Instead of fueling the doom and gloom machine, I’ll stick to ACTUAL science and statistics to get a broad brushed read on what may happen this winter. […]
Darrin’s Winter 2023-24 Outlook for central Adirondacks
The article title was just clickbait to get you here. Winter outlooks have severely limited accuracy and cannot account for timing of singular events that can make-or-break a snowmobiling season. However, the development of El Niño can be a strong clue into what winter may look like. This chart shows a large and strengthening bank of […]
2013-14 Winter Outlook
I’ve been stringing along the Winter Outlook for a while. So it’s time for me to put up or shut up. First, let me get the disclaimer out of the way: This outlook is a general idea of what I think this winter might do. It is impossible to predict individual storms, cold surges and […]
Warm October 2013
You’ll need to book a flight, drive a long way, or just go on Facebook to find any snow for at least the next couple of weeks. Right now, snow cover over the lower United States is limited to the highest elevations of the Rocky Mountains.