Reports of what kind of winter we should expect have been all over the place.
That's exactly what kind of winter we will have, both extremes will occur.
Brad Rousseau, a meteorologist with the Weather Network, says our area will be a battle zone, with intrusions of warm Pacific air followed by intrusions of cold Arctic air.
Rousseau expects us to see about normal to a little below normal amounts of snowfall and precipitation this winter.
To figure out this prediction they look at how the ocean and atmosphere interact, they also look at past years that have similar traits to what the weather is like now and they look at how those winters developed.