This year in
Maine weather scientist are predicting a record breaking snow season.
1. The warm temperatures this October
broke all previous records. October
temperatures have been a hall mark for predicting snow levels: Of the twenty years of highest recorded
October temperatures, seventeen of those years were the seventeen highest
recorded snow falls.
2. A
La Na Nina in the Pacific is an indicator of winter trade wind routs
across New England. The Alberta Clippers
follow the trade winds, and the more advanced the La Nina the more snow fall we
received in Maine. This year there is a La Nina in the Pacific
and it is due to peak in mid-winter.
3. Ocean waters off the coast of Maine
are the warmest on record. Warm waters
in the Gulf of Maine tend to create more frequent winter storms and more severe
snow events (nor-easters.)
This year we
are looking at a trifecta, with snow falls in the western mountains of Maine
expected to be in excess of 100 inches.
My wife and I are winter people, and I love this.
the Ol'Buzzard
