Forecasters predict colder and wetter winter
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The National Weather Service says the
long-term outlook for Arkansas indicates a cooler and wetter winter
than usual... one that may feature more snow and ice than in ordinary years.
The outlook puts much of the cause on El Nino`s influences on the jet stream and the route storms are expected to take through the state. Forecaster Newton Skiles says storm systems appear more likely to reach further south, putting them over Arkansas. Skiles says the state is in a transition zone between where there is heavy snowfall and little snowfall. Skiles says there is no indicator that suggests the state will get tremendous ice storms, as it has in past years. The December
2000 ice storms caused more than 650 million dollars in damage and left more than one million Arkansans without electricity.
