“With the right timing, these storms can really explode off the East Coast,” Gottschalck explained. El Niño typically favors a less-active, west-to-east storm track across the northern US, but the Northeast will still be prone to snowy nor’easters.ĭuring an El Niño winter, nor’easters can get “juiced up” by abundant tropical moisture and deliver “two to three big snowstorms” on average, according to Jon Gottschalck, chief of the Operational Prediction Branch of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The mid-Atlantic and far southern New England are also likely to see more precipitation than normal this winter. But natural gas heat users will finally get a break. Winter expected to be costlier for those who heat with oil. Those who heat with natural gas are expected to have lower winter heating costs this year.
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