El Niño '23/'24 Forecasts Are Exhausting

It's that time of the year. Ski movie tours are ramping up, the snow's starting to fly, and everyone, from the guy you met in undergrad who took Meteorology 100 to actual, legit scientists, is speculating on what this upcoming winter will look like weather-wise. That last part -- the weather part -- is the most important. We skiers are understandably weather and storm-obsessed folk, always curious about where the storms will or won't hit, now enthralled by the deluge of long-term winter for