Parts of the East Coast, particularly the Mid-Atlantic, may get more snow than normal because of that, he said.
That means more rain in the South and extra storminess in the late winter, Gottschalk said.
El Nino often means “unusual severe weather across the state of Florida because of a strong subtropical jet stream,” he said.
He pointed to Washington’s paralyzing 2010 Snowmageddon storm that dumped more than 2 feet on the capital region during an El Nino.
The Siberian snow cover, El Nino and other factors “indicate an overall mild winter,” he told The Associated Press.
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