Early spring predicted

Posted 8/21/12

UPPER DELAWARE VALLEY — The warm weather of the past few days has left Ten Mile River mostly free of ice, and the ice on many of the lakes in the region looks like it might not be thick enough to …

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Early spring predicted

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UPPER DELAWARE VALLEY — The warm weather of the past few days has left Ten Mile River mostly free of ice, and the ice on many of the lakes in the region looks like it might not be thick enough to walk on.

Winter is not over yet, but the warm temperatures the region has experienced since the beginning of the season are expected to continue into spring. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the El Niño—a supply of warmer-than-normal water in the southern Pacific Ocean—which has been influencing weather for the past several months, is past its most extreme point but is still active. Because of that, the chance that temperatures will be higher than average through April is greater than that temperatures will be lower. Precipitation has an equal chance of being more or less than average.

NWS predicts a likelihood that the El Niño will diminish and be replaced by a La Niña event by sometime next fall, which is likely to have the opposite effect on temperatures here in the Upper Delaware Valley.

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