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Now I just need an insulated flipover...
Long range forecasts will drive a guy nuts. Weather channel says warmer than normal, accuweather says colder. They say El Niño makes winter warmer but if you look back it’s a 50/50 chance of it being warmer or colder than average. Personally I think we are due for a good deep freeze winter. Last year was supposed to be a La Niña winter which should bring cool temps to us, but what we had was another shortened warm winter in central Iowa. 2009-2010 was an El Niño winter and it was one of the coldest and snowiest on record, and if I remember right the fall that year was very similar to this. Snow pack in Canada and the northern US will greatly affect winter as well. There are too many variables to quantify, winter will come, I just hope it gets here and stays. If it doesn’t come to us then I may have to take a few more trips north!