El Niño Will Upend Winter Weather in the US. Here’s Who Will Feel It the Most
Forecasters say near-certain super El Niño could reshape rainfall, storm tracks and snowfall patterns across the country as fall turns to winter.
- AccuWeather announced near 100 percent confidence that a Super El Niño will emerge, with meteorologists expecting the phenomenon's most noticeable impacts to intensify from late fall into winter across the United States.
- Warming tropical Pacific waters are driving the event, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration classifies as potentially 'very strong,' with meteorologist Nat Johnson calling the expected strength 'something that's very unusual, if not a once in a lifetime type of .'
- Storm tracks are expected to shift, bringing wetter conditions to California and the South, while warmer-than-normal temperatures are possible over more than half of the Lower 48, including the Pacific Northwest and Midwest.
- AccuWeather long-range forecaster Paul Pastelok warned that Florida and southern Georgia face severe weather threats starting in November, while mountain locations in Utah and the Sierra Nevadas may benefit from increased snowfall.
- Climate change may cause more precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow at lower elevations, and meteorologists caution that individual storms can still produce outcomes differing from seasonal forecasts.
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