FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH… 3 Month Outlook

The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), part of the Nation Center for Environmental prediction (NCEP), located in Camp Springs, MD, puts out various long range forecasts regarding both temperature and precipitation. These are based upon long-range teleconnections, such as El Nino and La Nina.

One of the products that they offer is the three month outlook. These are probabilistic forecasts that offer a trend as to whether the extended period will be wet / dry and or hot / cold as compared to averages. As seen in the maps above, we have equal chances at this point for slightly warmer, slightly cooler or just about average temperatures and precipitation wise, once again according to the CPC, we’ve got equal chances of being above, below, or right around average through August.

Posted by Ted Zarras at 3:48 PM