IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 03 December 2012

Winter Prediction

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 05:41 AM

The meteorological winter season started on Saturday and our initial weather has felt nothing like winter with mild temperatures and fog. What will the rest of the winter be like? Do the dry conditions this year provide any foreshadowing of the winter to come? The featured chart presents the combination of March - November total precipitation and then the following winter season average temperature for Iowa. There is little correlation shown by this analysis. The four other driest years have had near average winters for temperature.

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