La Niña has returned to the Pacific Ocean, bringing along drier weather to southern California, which had hoped for a wet winter to combat drought, along with loads of precipitation in the northeast.
This event is referred to a ‘double-dip La Niña’ because it formed a year after a previous system.
Bob Larson, expert senior meteorologist for Accuweather, told DailyMail.com that the northeast will have a warmer winter, but it will endure above average snowfall.
The northwest region is set to experience a wet season, while southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Utah and Colorado will be hit with a dry spell.
Larson told Dailymail.com that the earliest signs of La Niña are expected to appear next week.
'There is already evidence of this pattern and in a week to 10 days, we will see a storm slamming into the West Coast that will stay in northern California,' he said.
'This could be a preview of what we could see this winter due to la Niña.'
La Niña occurs when stronger equatorial winds, blowing east to west, cool the Pacific Ocean in the tropical north of Australia.
The northwest region is set to experience a wet season, while southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Utah and Colorado will be hit with a dry spell.
Although La Niña will be present for the next few months, it is predicted to be the strongest after January.
For the entire southern one-third of the country and especially the Southwest, a La Niña often means drier and warmer weather.
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