Winter weather forecast

Lower than normal ocean temperatures in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean has led the The U.S. Climate Prediction Center, on December 8, 2011, to issue their newest forecast, which calls for a continuation of La Niña conditions for December, 2011 through January, 2012. This should translate into:

- above average air temperatures across the mid section of the U.S. - below average temperatures over the estern and north central U.S. - above average rain across the nothern U.S.…