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Weather in columbus ohio in celsius12/8/2023 TemperatureIn Columbus, the average high-temperature in December decreases from a frosty 49.6☏ in November to a cold 39.2☏. Do not forget to layer up and enjoy the Christmas festivities! It's a magical time of year with light snowfall and early sunset, perfect for holiday celebrations. The city receives 2.44" of snow spreading over 8.7 snowfall days. The private firm AccuWeather forecasts below average snowfall in Boston, New York City, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chicago and Minneapolis, with near average in Kansas City, Salt Lake City and Philadelphia and more than normal in Denver.ĪccuWeather predicts less warmth than NOAA, with pockets of southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee cooler than normal.December embraces Ohio's winter fully with lower temperatures averaging 39.2☏ during the day and falling to 29.3☏ at night. ![]() People on the East Coast should be prepared for "weather whiplash" with not much snow in general except for one or two real gangbusters, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, Cohen said. When there's more snow, the polar vortex is weaker and the frigid air escapes to the United States. ![]() When Siberia has less fall snow, the polar vortex, a mass of cold air centered at the top of the globe, tends to stay strong and keeps the frigid Arctic air penned up near the pole, Cohen said. The Siberian snow cover, El Nino and other factors "indicate an overall mild winter," he told The Associated Press. Judah Cohen, a winter storm expert for Atmospheric Environmental Research, a commercial firm outside of Boston, has become prominent because of his successful forecasts based on fall Siberian snow cover and study of the infamous polar vortex. Meteorologists outside NOAA see the winter playing out somewhat similarly. Winter in the Lower 48 has warmed on average 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) in the past 40 years, according to NOAA data. NOAA scientists said climate change is an added factor to their forecast, especially with winter being a season where the world sees some of the most warming above old normals from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Normally the South gets not just wetter but cooler during an El Nino, but Gottschalk said the warmer ocean temperatures and record hot summer temperatures led forecasters to ditch a cooler outlook. He pointed to Washington's paralyzing 2010 Snowmageddon storm that dumped more than 2 feet on the capital region during an El Nino. But if the timing is right, "these storms can really explode off the East Coast," he said. That depends on timing of temperatures and other conditions, so it's not likely to happen more than a couple times. Those changes in the jet stream often can bring a storm along the East Coast with moisture from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico "to get very juiced up" and fall as heavy snow in big eastern cities, Gottschalk said. El Nino often means "unusual severe weather across the state of Florida because of a strong subtropical jet stream," he said. That means more rain in the South and extra storminess in the late winter, Gottschalk said. ![]() That's when it sends the jet stream, which moves storm fronts, on an unusual path that is dominated by warmer and wetter Pacific air plunging south. El Nino has its strongest effects, especially in the United States, during the winter. The Great Lakes region and the furthest northern parts of the nation stretching from Lake Erie to eastern Washington are forecast to be drier than normal.Īll this is because of El Nino, which is a natural periodic warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide and generally heats up global temperatures, Gottschalk and other NOAA scientists said. The forecast of added moisture stretches from Massachusetts down the East Coast along most of the South below Tennessee, and extending west through Texas, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and most of California, but excluding good chunks of New Mexico and Arizona. The greatest odds for warmer than average conditions are in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and northern New England," Gottschalk said.Ī similarly large southern swath of the country is predicted to be wetter. ![]() NOAA doesn't predict any part of the U.S. The rest of the nation is forecast to be near normal or have equal chances for warm, cold or normal. Most of the country is predicted to be warmer than normal with that warmth stretching north from Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska and Nevada, along with nearly all of California.
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