Posted at 3:56 PM on November 20, 2008
by Craig Edwards
NOAA's Climate Prediction has just released their updated winter outlook for December through February. There is neither a La Nina or El Nino to factor in on this outlook, but the overall trend this decade is for milder winters than the thirty year average.
The odds of a milder than normal winter in the Twin Cities appear to have slipped from an earlier prediction of slightly more than fifty percent to slightly less than forty percent.
Recall that the starting point for CPC forecasters is a 33 percent chance of above, below and normal.
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