Forecaster Suggests Missouri & Illinois to Get ‘Worst of Winter’

Be wrong. Oh, please be wrong. A brand new warning about the upcoming winter comes from an online forecaster who's sole purpose is to predict wintry weather. He says that he expects both Missouri and Illinois to get what he describes as the "worst of winter". Oh, boy.

This brand new outlook on winter 2024/2025 comes from the YouTube channel Winter Forecast Central. He uses different models to determine what patterns will be prevalent for the upcoming winter months at the end of 2024 and the start of 2025.

The two climate patterns that can greatly affect winter weather are El Niño and La Niña. He believes that it's the latter, La Niña, that will rule this upcoming winter and if that's correct, it's bad news for Missouri and Illinois. When it comes to temperature, he sees both Missouri and Illinois being in the colder area.

For moisture, it's going to be a wet winter based on models he's using and that's not a good thing which I'll reveal shortly.

Here's his overall forecast showing Missouri and Illinois to be in the "worst of winter" and "big snows possible" region.

It's easy to dismiss a forecast for Missouri and Illinois winter this far out as being unreliable. However, don't forget that Farmer's Almanac warned about the same potential situation.

Fortunately, we have a few months to prepare and wait to see if this dire winter forecast becomes reality or something we can laugh about.