El Niño a major factor in NOAA’s winter outlook for Massachusetts

NOAA’s National Weather Service announced its winter outlook for the United States Thursday and there were no big surprises for Massachusetts. El Niño is ruling the roost.

As we inch toward the winter season, we have a record-setting, very strong El Niño in place across the Pacific Ocean.

This is the strongest El Niño ever recorded, beating out some very big El Niño events in the last several decades.

Currently, the weather phenomenon is overriding all other atmospheric factors and will be the biggest player in this winter’s forecast across the entire country…

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