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The Farmers' Almanac, a long-standing annual publication that provides weather forecasts, has predicted a wet and long winter for the United States.
The almanac, published since 1918, released its 2024-2025 winter forecast, which said that the season in the U.S. will officially begin on December 21 and see frequent "rapid fire storms" bringing rain and snow with minimal breaks between them.
The coldest part of the season is the last week of January into the beginning of February when temperatures plunge nationwide.
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The almanac said it is "red flagging" the final week of January as a very active storm track is forecast over most of the eastern half of the country.
The storm, expected to peak between January 20 to 23 and 24 to 27, will bring bouts of heavy rain and strong winds, as well as possible snow and ice in some areas.
In general, temperatures are forecast to be cold from the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes region.
New England and the Northeast will be particularly stormy.
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Meanwhile, the winter will be milder in Texas, the Southern Plains and up across the Southeast and Atlantic coast, with these areas experiencing above-average temperatures.
"It definitely looks more wet than white in many areas," Farmers' Almanac editor Sandi Duncan told USA Today. "Obviously, depending on where you live, there might be more white than wet, but we're focusing in on the wet winter ahead."
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Duncan told the outlet that most of the country can expect a wet Thanksgiving, with the exception of parts of the Southwest, and Christmas is likely to be wet rather than white in most areas.
The almanac predicts that La Niña will develop and linger during the winter, referring to unusually cold ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific.
La Niña would replace the El Niño climate pattern that has typically occurred in recent years. El Niño refers to unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Last year, the U.S. saw its warmest winter on record.
These conditions will last longer than usual in many parts of the country, meaning that "it's going to feel like a longer winter, even if it's a little warmer in certain areas that usually get snowier conditions," Duncan told USA Today.
Newsweek reached out to the Farmers' Almanac via email outside of regular working hours.
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