La Niña Is Coming? Or El Niño?

La Niña In North America...

Or alternatively...

ABC 21: NOAA: La Niña ends, increasing odds El Niño will return winter 2017-2018

So basically no one really knows for sure? I guess we will find out soon enough. Meteorologists tend to be all over the place on possible outcomes this winter. Still, sort of amazing the the results tend to be within statistical variations one would expect from past data.  

Watts Up With That: Collapse of Global Warming Predictions

EBL: Hurricane Ophelia heading to Ireland and UK

Farmer's Almanac: Winter 2017-2018

Predictions: Winter 2017-2018

AoSHQ: The Morning Report

TOM: Male or Female?