10-3 FB La Nina Ahead?

 Winter weather is a little bit of a distance away but it is not too soon to start thinking about it, particularly if you make your living as an Ag producer. Well who can forget the weather we went through last winter that carried way into spring. The words that rang again and again were cold and wet. In Idaho, I kept calling Ron Abramovich,  who is a Hydrologist and Water Supply Specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).  I would reach Ron at the Snow Survey Office in Boise and he kept telling me that the snowpack was growing and there would be lots of water come spring. He was right.  Now,The National Weather Service has suggested that La Niña conditions have returned and are expected to strengthen and continue through the winter season. Just listen to Todd Shae who is a National Weather Service Meteorologist.   “There is a  little bit greater likelihood of certain weather conditions when these La Niña conditions episodes develop. The only thing I would urge caution for in the winter months, you can have those opposites of what typically happens and you can certainly have the usual extreme of winter weather. In the Pacific Northwest they tend to see cooler, wetter winters. In the Southwest and the Southern Plains they typically have dryer, warmer winters which is not good news for people down there would’ve been in and extreme drought.” And the impact on beef cattle production may be profound.