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By admin , 30 January 2026

In more than a decade of posts on the Climate.gov ENSO Blog, few were more popular than the ones about how El Niño and La Niña (the warm and cool phases of the natural climate pattern nicknamed “ENSO”) affect snow across the United States.

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Map of North America showing places where La Niña favors snowy winters in shades of blue and where it favors less-snowy winters in shades of grey.