When it comes to snow and festivities we think of Christmas. However, there are chances that some states in the United States will experience a white Halloween. Although it is a peculiar fact, an Alaska climatologist created a map that illustrates the possibilities of snowfall the next week.
The division of climate Fox compiled the information from Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist who warns of the possibility of a Halloween full of snow this 2023.
US states that could experience snowfall next week
According to the specialist, to qualify a Halloween white should be at least one inch thick snow on the ground in the morning on October 31st. Or, that the snow accumulates to at least 0.1 inches on that date, based on the criteria used by the National Weather Service to classify a white Christmas.
The information is based on historical meteorological data from recent years, according to which there is a high probability that snowfall occur in 48 states, especially at higher elevations in the northern and central Rocky Mountains.
On the highest peaks west of Denver and those in Yellowstone National Park in northeastern Wyoming, there will be a 25 to 50 percent chance that people will go trick-or-treating in an environment surrounded by snow.
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The probability is only 10 to 25 percent in the Cascades of Washington and Oregon, the northern plains of Minnesota and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan although it is not ruled out.
It should be said that a snowy halloween It is rare, as the probability is generally less than 10 percent. In fact, much of the South has never recorded this occurrence and in this case the chances are between 1 and 5 percent in places like New Mexico and Texas.
Those who have the desire to live a Halloween different surrounded by snow should choose to head north, to Alaska or Canada, where there is more than a 50 percent chance of this phenomenon occurring.
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