Mother Nature is gearing up to clobber the United States with much colder temperatures this winter, says Joe Bastardi, chief forecaster for WeatherBELL Analytics.
"We believe it will be a major cold winter for much of the United States, but the worst of it . . . will be centered further south and east," Bastardi said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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"[That includes] the Ohio Valley, the mid-Atlantic states into the Southwest, the Southern plains."
The so-called I-95 corridor will also get whacked, especially Philadelphia and Washington, Bastardi predicted.
"We expect a much snowier than normal winter. For instance, D.C. averages 16 to 20 inches. I wouldn't be surprised to get at least 30.
"Philadelphia, I don't think we're going to get as high as last year, but we are going to get quite a bit of snow, and if you remember 2009, 2010, and 2002, 2003, that is the kind of winter."
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Making the forecasts even more dramatic will be storms from the Gulf of Mexico trying to make their way north and trigger "a couple of super-shots of brutally cold air" into the U.S.
"So, it looks like a hard winter to us overall," Bastardi said.
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