MA Winter Weather Forecast Is In

Winter is coming. Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a winter forecast that’s predicting a very good chance of a warmer-than-usual season for Massachusetts. In fact, not a single region of the United States is expected to be colder than usual this winter, but some areas will experience more rain.

There isn't an indication one way or another about how much more or less precipitation we could see this winter.

“Wetter than average conditions are most likely in Alaska and Hawaii this winter, along with portions of the Northern Plains, Upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes and parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast,” the agency said in its winter forecast, which it released Thursday.

The government organization stays away from projecting seasonal snowfall accumulations as snow forecasts are generally impossible to predict until the week prior.

Even during a warmer than usual winter in Massachusetts, though, periods of cold and snowfall are still possible.

What do The Farmers’ Almanac and Old Farmer’s Almanac predict for the winter?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration isn’t the only organization that’s released a winter weather prediction, but consensus can be hard to find when it comes to weather.

Followers of the Farmers’ Almanac for instance, are bracing for a snowy, bone-chilling season. Meanwhile, forecasters at the rival Old Farmer’s Almanac are predicting more rain than snow.
The two meteorological publishers have almost identical names, but their long-range forecasts could not be more different.

For what it's worth: Farmers' Almanac predicts a stormier than usual winter in Massachusetts. The Old Farmer's Almanac is calling for a drearier than usual winter.

Both outfits use so-called “secret formulas” to predict the weather that they keep closely guarded, and only time — and winter — will tell which one has it right.