The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center has unveiled its latest El Niño projections, and the weather pattern could have serious impacts on the Chicago area’s weather for months.
According to that latest guidance released on Thursday, the ongoing El Niño pattern in the Pacific Ocean has continued to strengthen over the last month, and forecasters are warning that a “strong-to-very strong” pattern is expected to persist beyond the winter months and into at least the early spring.
The latest update indicates that there is a chance the El Niño pattern could continue to grow even stronger for the remainder of this year before slowly starting to weaken, and there is still a strong chance of an “historic event” that could impact weather across the United States…