Winter 2018 19 Forecast

Parts of france had their warmest february day on. Cold in the south mild in the west. The expected weak el nino conditions will favor above normal temperatures across wisconsin and near or below normal precipitation across the northeast half of the state.

Perhaps the most memorable east coast storm happened.

Winter 2018 19 forecast. The nws climate prediction center has issued the winter outlook dec feb for 2018 19. The 2020 edition of the farmers almanac suggests a suspenseful start to january over the eastern half of the country. A late january arctic blast resulted in chicago having subzero temperatures for 52 straight hours. The 201819 european winter occurred from late 2018 to early 2019.

Notable events included the early snows in spain and intense flooding in italy in cities such as venice the intense snow storms which affected central europe in january the snow storms in greece over the new year period as well as the end of february. Climate forecasters at the climate prediction center predict a weak el nino to occur during the meteorological winter months of 2018 2019 dec jan feb. Winter 2018 19 had a mix of impressive snowstorms and cold outbreaks. Parts of the plains and upper midwest were hit hard by a number of storms.

This combined with other global factors should favor above normal temperatures across wyoming with the greatest chance across northwest and north central wyoming. This may mean frequent freefalling precipitation as well as strong and gusty winds. As well as severe winter weather there was also exceptional warmth across western europe in the last week of february. Outlook for 201819 winter finally the outlooks.

No all time records were broken in the windy city but the low temperature of 230f was close to breaking the all time record of 270f. November winter 2018 19 temperature outlook. Based on the meteorological definition the first day of winter is december 1 and the last day february 28. Here are some winter 2018 19 highlights.

January 47 and 1215 could depending on where you live mean copious amounts of snow rain sleet and ice. Both the temperature and precipitation outlooks depend to a certain extent on typical el nino impacts but forecasters think a weak el nino event is most likely. On january 29th chicagos wind chill dipped to 520f. Based on the astronomical definition winter begins at the winter solstice which in 2018 occurred on december 21 and ends at the march equinox which in 2019 occurred on march 20.