Few mainstream forecasts are tailored toward snow-sport enthusiasts, but a lot of talking heads are wondering whether this year\u2019s Super Bowl<\/a>, which takes place February 2 in New Jersey\u2019s open-air New Meadowlands Stadium, will get slammed by a big winter storm. The Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em> <\/a>thinks so (although anyone with a degree in common sense should understand how impossible it is to predict a single day event four months out). Negative NAO values can send storms as far south as Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia, although LaRosa sees the biggest dumps come to the Northeast when the NAO flip-flops from deeply negative to neutral. But, he admits, it\u2019s hard to predict a good winter based off of October NAO values. \u201cIt\u2019s just not that reliably predicted outside of maybe 21 days,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-07-24_parent\/2017-07-24_92\/farmersalmanac_fe_0.jpg\")
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Skiers out East might have one cause for excitement this winter. The North Atlantic Oscillation<\/a>, which follows the spread of high and low pressure across the northern Atlantic, is predicted to be \u201cmoderately negative\u201d this winter. In a negative NAO, a big block of low pressure is weakened over Greenland, which pushes the jet stream farther south, taking storm tracks with it. \u201cWinters with moderately negative NAOs are productive because it often places the mean storm track over the New England mountains with enough cold air to make pow,\u201d says AJ LaRosa, who has been predicting East Coast snowstorms for years over at famousinternetskiers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n