"Typically, we have these trends in the northern mid-Atlantic where we'll have a string of snowless winters, quiet winters and then we'll have strings of winters where we'll get smacked big time wave after wave of snowfall," meteorologist and owner of NYNJPA Weather Steven DiMartino told Brooklyn Paper. "Over the past three years we've had La Niña, where you typically get what's called a ridge setting up over the east of the United States. And although we start off cold in November and December, the rest of the winter ends up being pretty mild. Then there's El Niño - this is where waters in the Pacific ocean are warmer. What you get is that the start of winter is mild, which is typical, and then January and February get very cold and stormy and that usually leads to our very active storm systems and our very active winters."
"When you start to warm the oceans, you start to create an environment where your La Niña can last much longer and they'll b
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