El Niño is usually the kiss of death for snowfall in Seattle.
Except when it’s not.
The internet has been ablaze with headlines in recent weeks about how El Niño—the global climate phenomenon that results in warmer ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific—is back for the first time in five years. El Niños tend to lead to warmer winters across the northern tier of the U.S.—especially in the Seattle metro, where the extra dose of warmth usually squashes our chances for any meaningful snow.
That must mean the winter of 2018–19—our last El Niño—was nearly snowless in Seattle, right?
Far from it.
Two of Seattle’s
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