2025-2026 Winter Speculation Thread

[Daniel Boone]

17 hours ago, Met1985 said:

With today's climate and also a plethora of variables im not so sure about a cold November leads to a cold winter. Last November was pretty warm for many and we then had one of the coldest January's on average in about 30 years. I think we actually see a mixed bag this winter to average things out in my opinion. 

Yeah. Used to be higher percentage so, things does appear to have changed. 

[Daniel Boone]

This Storm would have produced Major Snow in part's of our Area a Month later. 

[Carvers Gap]

Check out the 18z GFS at 156z.  

[IndTenn]

1 hour ago, Carvers Gap said:

Check out the 18z GFS at 156z.  

At 186z, New England is pretty much blown off the map!

[Met1985]

3 hours ago, Daniel Boone said:

Yeah. Used to be higher percentage so, things does appear to have changed. 

Oh yeah not trying to be a pain but with the current climate and all the variables.  I wish it was as easy as it used to be. With pattern recognition and rolling things forward.  Seems like it's more frustrating than anything. 

[Carvers Gap]

The PDO is a decadal trend...haha.  Sorry, had to.

But.......we should be coming out of that crap trend sooner than later.  17-18 seems like when this current winter pattern began.  Cold starts to winters, and meh ends to winter w/ the middle of winter being a crapshoot.  Some extreme cold shots have been embedded.  

That PDO cycle is coupled with the La Nina which is normal I think.  

With the La Nina cooling things off a bit(nature's thermostat), the next weak(and it must be weak) El Nino should offer decent chances.

The NAO appears to be trending more negative during winter after decades of dormancy.  The AMO should flip within the next 3 years - debate as to its "realness" allowed.

 

[Carvers Gap]

Some good graphics in this....DT's prelim ideas.  I am really just posting this for discussion.  You all can decide for yourself if it has merit.  The 13-14 analog looks strong.  You all that brought that idea to the forum...strong work.

https://wxrisk.com/wp-content/uploads/_pda/2025/10/winter2526A.pdf

[Carvers Gap]

It could change, but the Weeklies are depicting the hammer(winter) to come down early.  We are going to have a mid-month warmup, but LR ext modeling is showing a very cold pattern to open December.  That could EASILY change as modeling during shoulder season is beyond undependable.  Looks like another cold rainer on tap for early next week, and then the warm-up but  with stout cold fronts embedded.  November could go below normal even with the warm-up.  The trick w/ these La Nina quick start winters is this...will winter come back after the inevitable mid-winter thaw?  

Lastly, and I have stated this often....winter often likes to show up where it has been rainy during the fall.  It is one of two JB rules which I like.  The other is the late hurricane season correlating to an early start to winter.  Right now, both of those are in our favor.

I actually wrote a post last week where I was gonna flip to a later arriving winter.  Cosgrove has me shook!  I posted and then deleted it moments later.  I decided to roll with my original ideas, and the Weeklies literally flipped cold about 5mins after I posted it!  Thankfully, I stayed with my original ideas.  Now, if I were to tweak the winter ideas, I might add a colder period at the end of Jan to begin Feb.  Weeks 1-3 of December cold, and week4 and weeks 1-2 of Feb cold.  That kind of seems like that is the play right now.  It fits those older QBO analogs.  If we can get any help from the PDO region, could be even better.  

And ya'll know I don't do AI for my content...just too many typos.  If you ever see a post with no typos, then you know the singularity got me.