Wrangell Sentinel -

While officials at the National Weather Service say they can’t predict with certainty how much snow will fall this winter, they’re pretty sure temperatures will be colder than normal.

How much colder? It’s hard to say, really.

“We can say with 40 percent confidence that temperatures will be lower than usual,” said Rick Fritsch, a forecaster with the Service’s Juneau office. “In climate terms, that’s pretty confident. What I haven’t said is how much colder it will be.”

The average temperature for Wrangell, based only on data from between 1991 and 2010 for the three winter...