{"id":1465,"date":"2014-10-16T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:39:23","slug":"snowy-or-warm-winter-ahead-noaa-releases-seasonal-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/10\/snowy-or-warm-winter-ahead-noaa-releases-seasonal-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy or Warm Winter Ahead? NOAA Releases Seasonal Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A snowy road in Brick\u2019s Herbertsville section in 2013. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Are we in for a snowy winter this year? The answer: maybe.<\/p>\n

Predictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Climate Prediction Center were released Thursday, and they called for the northeastern U.S. to have a wetter-than-average winter season with temperatures hovering around average.<\/p>\n

That means that while the chance is about one-third greater than normal for storms to develop, the chance of those storms bring snow rather than rain will fall into historical averages. That is in contrast to last winter, where average temperatures were far below normal in much of the northeast, including stretches of days where the mercury barely rose out of the teens.<\/p>\n

\u201cA repeat of this extreme pattern is unlikely this year, although the outlook does favor below-average temperatures in the south-central and southeastern states,\u201d the National Weather Service said in a statement on the predictions.<\/p>\n

Much of New York and most of New England will likely have warmer-than-average temperatures this winter season, the predictions said. New Jersey falls into the \u201cequal chance\u201d category, meaning that there is not a strong enough climate signal to make a prediction, so there is an equal chance for above, near or below-normal temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\t\t