GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ)- Winter is officially here, but it sure doesn’t feel like it, and it may be a while before it feels any differently.
Meteorologist Richard Mamrosh with the National Weather Service in Green Bay says these temperatures we’ve been feeling are unusual but we have seen them before.
“In the late 90’s we had a couple of winters where we really didn’t get any snow until Christmas Eve. It’s similar to that but I think this winter is even milder,” says Mamrosh.
The latest date for an inch of snow is sometime in mid January, so if we make it until then, it would be a record.
Mamrosh says the warmer temperatures we are feeling is a result of El Nino because all the cold air is bottled up in Canada and we keep getting storms coming in from the Pacific.
If you’re looking for snow, real snow, Mamrosh suggests heading to another state, at least for now.
“There’s been a pretty good snow cover across the Dakotas and probably the northern half of Minnesota. There’s been a ton of snow over the Rockies, so if people want to go skiing out there, that would be a great place to go,” Mamrosh says.
If we’re lucky, we could see a dusting of snow on Christmas night.
