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Winter weather forecast predicts El Niño will bring US crazy storms, cold beaches and desert rains

Nypost · · 476 words · By Jared Downing
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Winter weather forecast predicts El Niño will bring US crazy storms, cold beaches and desert rains See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Winter weather forecast predicts El Niño will bring US crazy storms, cold beaches and desert rains See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google It may be the middle of August, but to quote “Game of Thrones,” winter is coming — and this one could be wet and wild.

Common ground

The Old Farmer’s Almanac has released its 2026-2027 winter weather predictions, and it warns of colder temperatures in the south, icy days up north, and sudden downpours in the middle of the desert — thanks partly to the El Niño climate pattern, which is back…

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/us-news/winter-weather-forecast-predicts-el-nino-w…

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Claim 1: “the El Niño climate pattern, which is back after three years”
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Web search results explicitly state that El Niño is back after three years of the La Niña climate pattern, citing an advisory from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Those variations have an irregular…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ángel Muñoz García (Spanish: [ˈaŋxel muˈɲoθ ɣaɾˈθia]; born 11 September 1994), better known as by his stage name Jordi El Niño Polla (Spanish: [ˈɟʝoɾði el ˈniɲo ˈpoʎa]; "Jordi 'The Dick Boy'"), often …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_El_Niño_Polla
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Super El Niño events, also called very strong El Niño events, are climatic phenomena resulting from the average sea surface temperatures in parts of the Pacific Ocean rising by 2° Celsius or more, aff…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_El_Niño_events
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Claim 2: “The Old Farmer’s Almanac has released its 2026-2027 winter weather predictions”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that both the Farmers' Almanac and the Old Farmer's Almanac have released their winter weather predictions for the 2026-2027 season.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Farmers' Almanac is an annual American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818. Published by Geiger of Lewiston, Maine, the Farmers' Almanac provides long-range weather predictio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers'_Almanac
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Old Farmer's Almanac is an almanac containing weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles. Topics include gardening, sports, astronomy, folklore, and predictions o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer's_Almanac
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Bailey Thomas (April 24, 1766 - May 19, 1846), also spelled Robert Bayley Thomas, was an American who created, and for a long time published, the Old Farmer's Almanac. Thomas was born in Grafto…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bailey_Thomas
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Claim 3: “El Niño usually makes a warmer-than-usual winter in the northern states”
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Multiple sources confirm that El Niño typically leads to warmer-than-average temperatures in the northern United States/northern states.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Those variations have an irregular…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014–2016 El Niño was one of the strongest El Niño events on record, with unusually warm waters developing between the coast of South America and the International Date Line. These unusually warm …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–2016_El_Niño_event
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The El Niño–Southern Oscillation affects the location of the jet stream, which alters rainfall patterns across the West, Midwest, the Southeast, and throughout the tropics. The shift in the jet strea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_El_Niño–Souther…
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