As the US gears up for a winter heavily influenced by the first strong El Niño in years, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have released maps that offer insight ...

Newly released maps from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provide a clue. While they aren't forecasts, they show where and how much snow has fallen during previous El Niño winters.

This is where the new maps come in. They show where snow is more or less likely during El Niño winters compared to average. There’s just one caveat: these maps are historical guidebooks, not ...

For most of the locations, there were 26 El Niño, 25 La Niña and 22 neutral seasons of snowfall data. T he map below shows El Niño's impact over the 73-year period. You can see a north-south split.

Snowfall during all El Niño winters (January-March) compared to the 1991-2020 average (after the long-term trend has been removed). Blues indicate more snow than average; browns indicate less ...

This is where the new maps come in. They show where snow is more or less likely during El Niño winters compared to average. There’s just one caveat: these maps are historical guidebooks, not ...

The map above depicts how much snow differs from average across all El Niño winters, regardless of El Niño’s strength. The drier trend that’s typical across the northern US shows up well in ...

(CNN) — As the US gears up for a winter heavily influenced by the first strong El Niño in years, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have released maps that offer ...

(CNN) — As the US gears up for a winter heavily influenced by the first strong El Niño in years, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have released maps that offer ...