https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/us/winter-forecast-2018-19-wxc/index.html
States from the Pacific Northwest through the Northern Plains and into the Northeast are likely to see above-average temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center reported.
No parts of the country are due to see a colder-than-normal winter.
Meantime, drier-than-average conditions are expected for the Great Lakes and portions of the Northern Rockies and the Northern Plains.
Those factors could mean less snow from the Mountain West to the Midwest, where lake-effect-snow season is right around the corner.
Even so, it's no time to ditch the shovels and heavy winter jackets, with NOAA warning that its forecast does not mean the winter of 2018-2019 will not feature major snowstorms.
"Even during a warmer-than-average winter, periods of cold temperatures and snowfall are still likely to occur," the agency stated in its outlook.