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Originally Posted by tom77falcons
Do Nina's give New England lots of snow? I'm planning my ski trip again, and am trying to figure out what month would be best to go. Last year March was perfect.
Niñas can be very snowy in New England, especially northern Vermont and New Hampshire. I am pretty sure that both Ottawa and Albany had then-record winters in 1970-1, a Niña winter. In 2010-11 even New York City had two or three 20" storms. Generally the further north you go in Niña winters the more snow. El Niño winters are the ones where you hear about Washington DC or even Atlanta getting clobbered.
These are general rules however. 1997-8 and 1972-3, both Super Niños were almost snowless from New York City on south, though 1972-3 did feature two deep-south storms. And January 24 or so, 2000 had 20" in Raleigh, NC which shows even Niñas can surprise in the deep south. But I wouldn't spend any money based on fluke storms.
I think there's a good chance we see a suppressed jet pattern again winter as the northern stream will dominate. Last winter that was the reason why CA and OR were so wet and why it was colder/drier further north up towards WA and BC.
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