Winter forecast !

If the meteorology is right in less than two months the winter season will have started in Ski Centres.

Trough the net we can already see the first images of snow in the Alps and Pyrenees, which is exciting for the winter sports lovers, so the experts say what they foresee :

First, José Tomás, the weatherman for Radio Televisión de Andorra :

As a good meteorologist, Jose warns us that to do forecasts for a far future is complicated but to he accepts the challenge and says that there important signals that can be important in the next months.

At short term, José Tomás predicts that: "The Mediterranean is really warm and for the autumn this can cause a great amount of storms and floods. This storms could be seen also in the Alps, the autumn could be bastante rainy" .

We asked him about the fashion trnd of the summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the 'El Niño' and smile, "... whic is expected to be very strong, so that will influence the global climate but also locally. When El Niño is powerful, Alps and our area winters are usually cold or very cold, dry and long, which means a good' harvest 'snow cultivated and strong snowfalls on all the north faces of the Alps and in our mountain ranges and less precipitation in the southern slopes, which could suffer more this winter.

It's almost a certainty that we're headed for the strongest El Nino of the past 100 years which would eclipse the very strong El Ninos of 1997-1998 (1st strongest), 1982-1983 (2nd strongest) and 1972-1973 (3rd strongest).

El Nino is simply an Equatorial Pacific Ocean cycle of warmer than average water temperatures (El Nino) typically followed by cooler than normal water temperatures (La Nina). The Pacific nations surrounding the Pacific Ocean typically have the greatest impacts due to El Nino but in reality it alters the typical global circulation patterns and jet streams.