“Winter in the US this year is going to be very different. El Nino is ramping up in the Pacific. Sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are still off the charts, and we’re going to have an amplified southern jet stream,” US meteorological analyst and YouTuber Ryan Hall said in a video published on Saturday. He said the El Nino weather phenomenon will “affect how much snow we get and how often we see it, but it’s also going to change when the snow starts.”
Hall constructed a map of the US regions that usually see the first measurable snowfall:
- Moving on to this light blue region, this is where we have a lot of data supporting an average first snowfall of around December 30th. This includes Raleigh, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, Little Rock, and Dallas. Essentially, sometime in January is when you’re going to see your first snow down here. But beyond this, we can get a little bit more detailed with our first snowfall date because we have a lot to work with as far as historical averages go.
- In the darker blue here, we typically see our first snow either after December 15th or before December 30th. So that narrows it down a lot. This includes places like Bowling Green, Kentucky, and St. Louis.
- This light purple zone indicates an area where we expect to see snowfall sometime between December 1st and December 15th. And now we’re talking about places like Washington DC and Cincinnati and Peoria, Illinois.
- Now, once we get into this darker shade of purple, we’re talking about a large area of the US seeing their first measurable snowfall between November 16th and December 1st. This is Chicago, Pittsburgh, and a lot of southern New England. It’s very important to remember that these are just historical averages.
- Especially in this pink zone, where on average, we see our first snow between November 1st and November 16th. There tend to be some major swings up here.
- And then, of course, the final gray zone here shows us where snow can occur as early as October 2nd, which is actually around the time that this video goes up. But there you have it.
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Sept 21st, 1st day of fall, 12 hrs daylight 12 hrs nightime
Dec 21st, 1st day of winter, shortest daylight day of year, longest nighttime of the year
Mar 21st, 1st day of spring, 12 hours daylight, 12 hours of nighttime
June 21st, 1st day of summer, longest daylight day of the year, shortest nighttime of the year.
Lather Rinse Repeat every ninety days. Dont make this so hard folks…been like this before we were born and after we are dead. It rains, it snows, ifs hot and cold. Prepare accordingly and for gods sake, dont buy gutter guards. Waste of money. Either clean them out yourself or get somone to do it twice a year. Paying over 3 grand for something thaat doesnt work 100% is wasteful. Invest that 3000 over 20 years, you will love it!