A Look Back at the CPC 2016-17 Winter Outlooks


It's time to take a quick look back at the good, the bad and the ugly of the CPC Winter Precipitation and Temperature Outlooks from this past winter. Because of the probabilistic nature of this outlooks this review, like previous reviews, is very subjective. But at least in the West, when their sub-headline for the just finished winter was "Drought expected to persist in California" followed the previous winter's busted above normal El Niño forecast, the efficacy of the product certainly needed scrutiny. See or details CPC Winter 2016-17 Seasonal and Monthly Precipitation and Temperature Outlooks in Review:




Jan Null, CCM
Golden Gate Weather Services
jnull@ggweather.com