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Macon, IL | • La Nina’s days may be numbered, says Iowa State Meteorologist Elwynn Taylor, and he says that diminishes the risk of a serious Midwest drought. The changes underway in Pacific water temperature also suggest a good season for the High Plains. Taylor says the weather pattern may be shifting toward an El Nino. He adds that weather conditions in the US continue to reflect a La Nina, but the peak intensity has passed. Nevertheless Taylor says it is too early to write off a drought just because La Nina was diminished.
• Midwestern snowfall could make this one of the 10 wettest winters. MO meteorologist Pat Guinan says there is still snowpack in IA, WI, and northern IL with soils near the point of saturation. He says MO will have one of the wettest winters since 1895, and IL expects to have its third wettest winter. He says average temperatures are near normal.
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Elwinn Taylor Comments-Lessening drought risk
