“This year has just been contrasting to what most other first year La Niñas have shown except for the 1910s,” she said. “It’s been a little bit out of the norm.”
Below-average temperatures have been recorded across much of the eastern two-thirds of the country, according to AccuWeather.com.
La Niña became the strongest on record in December, Bastardi said, and is not scheduled to disappear completely until 2012.
With the first winter of the La Niña cycles normally the warmest, that means much of the eastern half of the U.S. is in for a chill for the next two, Buchman said.
Such a pattern hasn’t been seen since the late 1910s, according to AccuWeather.
Below-average temperatures have been recorded across much of the eastern two-thirds of the country, according to AccuWeather.com.
La Niña became the strongest on record in December, Bastardi said, and is not scheduled to disappear completely until 2012.
With the first winter of the La Niña cycles normally the warmest, that means much of the eastern half of the U.S. is in for a chill for the next two, Buchman said.
Such a pattern hasn’t been seen since the late 1910s, according to AccuWeather.
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