BBC News has published an article asking what the El Niño climate pattern could mean for winter weather in the United States and Canada. According to the outlet's summary, El Niño winters typically bring more rain to the southern United States and drier, warmer conditions farther north. The BBC News article on El Niño and winter weather frames these effects as a question about the coming season.
On snowfall, BBC News reported that "the impacts on snowfall are complex." The summary does not explain what makes those impacts complex or describe how snowfall would change in any particular region.
The summary also does not say which northern areas it means by "further north," and it does not quantify how large the differences in rainfall or temperature would be. It names no forecasters, researchers or data sources. The author field for the article was empty in the material available for this report, so no writer is named.
This report is based on the article's headline and summary. The full text of the article was not reviewed, and the summary is the only source for the details above.
Sources: BBC News: What could El Niño mean for winter weather in the US and Canada?.