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El Nino winters bring heavier snowfall to the southern United States.
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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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Is it true that El Nino winters bring heavier snowfall to the southern United States?
Partly. Reference and peer-reviewed sources partially support the claim: El Niño is linked to greater snowfall in the southern Rockies and Sierra Nevada, and to wetter winter precipitation across Gulf Coast and Southern Plains states. However, one study indicates La Niña, not El Niño, brings dry winters to the southern western U.S., and none of the sources directly measures heavier snowfall across the southern United States as a whole.
Verdict: CONTESTED PARTIAL · 3 sources for, 1 against · Last checked
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_Oscillation
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Drought in the Western United States: Its Connections with Large-Scale Oceanic Oscillations. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020082
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation impacts on precipitation in the southern and central United States: Evaluation of spatial distribution and predictions. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007wr005863
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Prediction of seasonal mean United States precipitation based on El Niño sea surface temperatures. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999gl900230
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