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Are you dreaming of sleds and ski trips and snow days?
If so, your dream may come true. Accuweather's forecast model for this coming winter calls for the El Nino climate pattern above average snowfall in the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest.
The Baltimore area sees an average of 20.2 inches of snow each winter, but we've yet to scrape that number since the 2009-10 season, when we had 77 inches of snow. The winter of 2010-11 saw 14.4 inches and less than two this past winter, according to National Weather Service data.
The Baltimore Sun, which first cited Accuweather's report, noted that the weather website's May predictions about what this summer would feel like, with plenty of severe weather in the mix, turned out to be accurate.
You tell us: How do you feel about a snowy winter? Tell us in the comments!
Lisa Daigle
5:07 pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sounds fantastic to me!
Travis Lee
2:08 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
And last year Accuweather said it would be a heavy or a normal winter, depending upon which map you look at. I can find three different maps from last year on their website.
We call them Panicweather as they are always worst case situation, and generally they are way off. Good if you plow snow, bad if you are trying to balance the state and county budget.