The La Niña event forecast for this winter may deliver more snow than usual to the Northwestern U.S. and dry, warm weather to the South.
But Northeastern University professor Samuel Munoz says to be cautious about planning a ski or beach vacation around La Niña — a cyclic weather pattern caused by a colder Pacific Ocean.
“Not every La Niña event is the same,” says Muñoz, an associate professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern’s Coastal Sustainability Institute.
“It just changes the probabilities of having a warmer or colder, wetter or drier, winter than usual – depending on what region you are in.”
“The state of the Tropical Pacific, whether we are in a La Niña or El Niño, gives us a fuzzy picture of what things might be like, but it’s not deterministic.”
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