NORTH AMERICAN
CLIMATE OUTLOOK PAGE
 
CPC Long-Range Climate Outlooks
The Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington D.C. produces long-range outlooks of temperature and precipitation.  These are NOT FORECASTS but are instead OUTLOOKS for general tendencies.  They are experimental in nature and cannot be used for day to day planning such as is done with the National Weather Service official 1-5 day weather forecasts.  Although accuracy can exceed chance, the level of accuracy in these outlooks is small and hesitation should be exercised before making major decisions based upon these long lead forecasts.

The OUTLOOKS are produced in map form and I have included a legend under each map for easy interpretation of the specific outlooks.

The long-range OUTLOOKS are produced around the 18th of each month.

Refer to this legend when viewing the OUTLOOK maps:

LEGEND:

Chance is 33% each for ABOVE (A), BELOW (B), AND NEAR NORMAL (N).  CL means, "Climatology", i.e. the statistical models are unable to forecast an outcome for this particular region.  It does NOT mean "near normal", it means the forecast models have NO IDEA which category is most likely!  The numbers show the amount above chance.  For example, 10% means, 10% above chance or 43% probability of the particular category (A or B, or N) occurring.  TEMP is temperature and PCPN is precipitation.

By clicking on the following link, you will be transported to the Climate Prediction Center and their home page for long-range climate outlooks.  There will NOT be a link back to this site, so use your web browser "back" button to return to the Nebraska Weather and Climate home page.

When you get to the CPC site, click on "forecasts" and then, "multi-season climate outlooks", and finally, "13 seasonal outlooks, maps of probability anomaly".The Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington D.C. produces long-range outlooks of temperature and precipitation.  These are NOT FORECASTS but are instead OUTLOOKS for general tendencies.  They are experimental in nature and cannot be used for day to day planning such as is done with the National Weather Service official 1-5 day weather forecasts.  Although accuracy can exceed chance, the level of accuracy in these outlooks is small and hesitation should be exercised before making major decisions based upon these long lead forecasts.

The OUTLOOKS are produced in map form and I have included a legend under each map for easy interpretation of the specific outlooks.

The long-range OUTLOOKS are produced around the 18th of each month.

Refer to this legend when viewing the OUTLOOK maps:

LEGEND:

Chance is 33% each for ABOVE (A), BELOW (B), AND NEAR NORMAL (N).  CL means, "Climatology", i.e. the statistical models are unable to forecast an outcome for this particular region.  It does NOT mean "near normal", it means the forecast models have NO IDEA which category is most likely!  The numbers show the amount above chance.  For example, 10% means, 10% above chance or 43% probability of the particular category (A or B, or N) occurring.  TEMP is temperature and PCPN is precipitation.

 

By clicking on the following link, you will be transported to the Climate Prediction Center and their home page for long-range climate outlooks.  There will NOT be a link back to this site, so use your web browser "back" button to return to the Nebraska Weather and Climate home page.

When you get to the CPC site, click on "forecasts" and then, "multi-season climate outlooks", and finally, "13 seasonal outlooks, maps of probability anomaly".
 

CPC Long-Range Climate Outlooks

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