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Fire Weather Concerns in the Southern Plains and Southeast; Pacific System to Bring Unsettled Weather to the West Coast

Gusty winds and dry conditions will continue to bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions to the southern Plains and Southeast early this week. A Pacific storm system will bring low elevation rain and heavy high elevation mountain snow to northern and central California through early week, expanding into the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, and southern California on Tuesday. Read More >

La Nina Winters Tend to have the colder temperatures and more significant snowfall toward the second half of the winter.

 


The chart above is based on all La Nina winters from 1949 to the present, there were 21 winters,  1949-50, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1963-64, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1994-95, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2012-13 and 2016-17.