National Weather Service climate researcher Brian Brettschneider says a typical El Niño winter in Alaska is often warmer and characterized by less-than-normal snowfall.
Larry Muehlhausen outside of his Anchorage home on Dec. 12, 2022. Last winter, Anchorage got over 100 inches of snow. This winter, an El Niño pattern may mean less-than-normal snowfall.
National Weather Service climate researcher Brian Brettschneider — back for our Ask a Climatologist segment — says a typical El Niño winter in Alaska is often warmer and characterized by less-than-normal snowfall.It even may approach what we call a super El Niño, which has only happened a few times in the last 50 years.
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