How this year’s winter could look like the snowy, stormy 2007-08

When preparing a winter forecast, analog years are chosen – these are winter seasons when a similar meteorological set up was in place – including sea surface temperatures (La Niña or El Niño) and teleconnections, which are weather patterns in one part of the world that have ramifications thousands of kilometres away. Ross Hull shows us how this upcoming winter season in Eastern Canada may have similar patterns to the winter of 2007-08.

• Heavy rain, wind and snow in forecast for Nova Scotia: Environment Canada