Wind, water and temperature are part of an intricate set of connected elements that affect weather patterns around the globe.
Weather events half-way around the world can affect local forecasts.
Most of the prediction models are indicating that the easterly trade winds in the tropics would strengthen. This will intensify the up-welling of cold waters in the eastern Pacific. The response of the global atmospheric circulation and its effects on Canadian winter weather conditions is even more uncertain. In the United States, winters are warmer and drier than normal in the Southeast and cooler and wetter than normal in the Northwest. Since mid June however, there has been little change.