The October 2021 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States and wetter-than-average conditions for the Plains.
La Niña's here through winter, but chances for ENSO to transition to neutral by spring are rising.
In 2019, the U.S. experienced 14 separate disasters costing at least a billion dollars each. Since 1980, 258 billion-dollar disasters have brought damages in excess of $1.75 trillion.
Now that the 2016-2017 winter is over with, it's time to look back and see what happened. Did our winter outlook do well?