Latest Winter Outlook Forecast is Much Warmer

The NWS has put forth their forecasts for the coming months in three month blocks. In my area, the outlook has the probability of normal to above normal temperatures to be around 70 % through March, and further we get into the winter, its even more likely we will be above normal. After 1 February the outlook goes to 82 %. Maybe a 70 degree day will occur in December or February...

Nationally the likelihood of the warmest above normal temperatures is in the southwest from Las Vegas and all of Arizona to across all of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma and eastward into Arkansas and Missouri and northward across all of Kansas and most of Colorado. The only areas where it may even be close to normal are Florida, the Pacific Coast, and the Pacific Northwest across Montana into western North Dakota.

http://www.weather.gov/climate/calendar_outlook.php?wfo=cys

http://www.weather.gov/climate/l3mto.php

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/SWcasts/index.html

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