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Major Winter Storm Ongoing in the Upper Midwest; Severe Weather Tonight from the Mid-South to the Ohio Valley

A major winter storm will continue to bring blizzard conditions, heavy snowfall, icing, and strong winds through Monday across the Upper Midwest and Upper Great Lakes. A line of storms will be capable of producing widespread damaging winds, tornadoes, and some large hail from the Mid-South to the Ohio Valley and the Southeast through tonight, moving into the Mid-Atlantic Monday. Read More >

La Nina Winters Tend to have the colder temperatures and more significant snowfall toward the second half of the winter.

 


The chart above is based on all La Nina winters from 1949 to the present, there were 21 winters,  1949-50, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1963-64, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1994-95, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2012-13 and 2016-17.