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Winter Outlook Update: January Cold Snap in East Possible, But El Niņo Influence Remains in February
WSI, a division of The Weather Company, issued their January through March 2016 outlook update, and both forecast temperatures and precipitation have the fingerprints of the current strong El Niño, the strongest in 18 years, all over them.
Stronger El Niños typically exhibit their peak influence on North America's weather pattern during the core winter months.
Keep in mind, however, there are several other factors in the atmosphere, operating on shorter time scales, that can, at times, oppose the overall three-month trend.
We'll go into more detail on those patterns following the outlooks a bit later. First, let's take a look at the latest outlooks for average temperature and total precipitation across the U.S. for January through March 2016.
http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/january-march-outlook-2016-noaa-wsi