The National Weather Service predicted just the opposite (colder and snowier winter) than the NOAA (warmer and dryer winter).
(And, B/W/W, this summer has been an unusually cool and wet one in my own neck of the woods - - the NW corner of MA).
Don'cha just love "science"?
Why cann't the little buggers just admit they have no freakin' clue and leave it at that?