Expect much more mild winter this year in the Valley, meteorologists say

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

It looks as if the Mahoning Valley isn’t going to get buried in snow this winter as it often has in recent years.

And Eric Wilhelm, chief meteorologist for 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, said the winter temperatures will be lower than average, but the weather won’t be as cold as last winter.

Martin Thompson, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, said snow in the Mahoning Valley “will be below normal from November through April. This past winter was brutal. A lot of people couldn’t handle another winter like that, and it doesn’t look like they will have to. We won’t get that much [snow] this winter.”

The NWS’s long-range forecast says there will be below average snow. The area’s snowfall average is 70 inches a winter.

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