The predictions for this winter’s weather from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are out; and for the Mid-Atlantic region, you can expect “a slight lean” toward warmer-than-normal weather.

But Andrew Ellis, professor of meteorology and climate science at Virginia Tech, said there’s only a “40% probability of warmer-than-normal” temperatures for December, January and February.

Ellis told WTOP the “normal” temperatures during the winter in the region range from a low in the 20s and a high in the 40s.

As for precipitation, Ellis said the totals are likely to fall within the normal range. Pinning down how much snowfall the region could see is trickier, he said.

“In the Mid-Atlantic, our snowfall is usually predicated on coastal storms … those are hard to predict,” he said

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