It’s not too early to start looking ahead to what is shaping up to possibly be a much different winter in Metro Detroit this year compared to last year. What does that mean?

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The National Weather Service threw out the first pitch Thursday, releasing Southeast Michigan’s 2024-2025 winter outlook.

La Niña Churreria offers a variety of flavors

Restaurant owner Leticia Rodríguez celebrated the construction late last year of a new lakeside boulevard in this northern Mexico town that she hoped would draw more people to her business.

For the second year in a row, we’ve exhausted the list of names allocated for the Atlantic hurricane season.

It indicates Michigan will see slightly above normal temperatures and above normal precipitation.

BERLIN – The La Niña climate phenomenon has developed and is expected to last into next year, affecting temperatures, precipitation and storm patterns across the world, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. A La Niña usually means a more active Atlantic hurricane season, with more and perhaps stronger storms. The World Meteorological Organization in Geneva said La Niña, characterized by abnormally cold sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, is “expected to be moderate to strong” this year. The global declaration of a La Niña event is used by governments to help plan responses in vulnerable sectors like agriculture, health, water resources and disaster management, the WMO said. This year’s La Niña is expected to bring drier than usual conditions to East Africa during the planting season, which the U.N. weather agency called “a further worrying development which may add to the food security challenges in the region.”In North America, La Niña typically brings more rain to the north of the continent and less to the south.

DETROIT La Nia could mean an arctic jet that moves further south over Michigan. This could mean a stormier pattern for the winter, meaning more precipitation. The video above offers an explanation. More: Weather Center