Weather forecasters with the National Weather Service are expecting a warmer and drier winter here in the south and a wetter winter up north.
The National Weather Service predicted about two-thirds of the country will see above average temperatures from December through February, while the Pacific Northwest and southern Alaska will likely get colder than usual. The Midwest, Northwestern states and Hawaii should expect above normal precipitation while the South will have less.
Unscientifically, the Old Farmers Almanac has predicted this winter to be a “Season of Shivers,” punctuated by positively bone-chilling, below-average temperatures across most of the United States.
“This coming winter could well be one of the longest and coldest that we’ve seen in years,” says Janice Stillman, editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. For 230 years, the Almanac has been helping readers to prepare for winter’s worst with its 80 percent–accurate weather forecasts.
In our slice of the south, the Almanac predicts that while it will be milder this winter in the Lowcountry, it will be wetter than normal.
We occasionally get a few snowflakes here in the Lowcountry, unless it’s January of 2018 when we got about 6 inches of snow here in Beaufort. Some would love to see that again…while some, not so much. We love a Lowcountry winter.
