DOES NEXT WEEK’S WARM-UP SPELL A WARMER JANUARY?

From the US National Weather Service

Here’s how the winter season (Dec-Feb) has started with observed mean temps and their departure from normal so far, and the latest monthly outlook for January issued by the Climate Prediction Center. While we will see a warmup this week, the overall consensus of longer range models (including AI) point towards January being below normal as well in our neck of the woods.