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Weather Forecast Office
Does El Niño affect the snowfall in Harrisburg, PA?
Here is a look at the raw data from every season from 1949-50 through 2014-15.
Summary: A glance at the data appears to show little correlation between the warm (El Niño) ENSO phase and snowfall at Harrisburg (see the scatter plot below). However, 5 of the top-ten snowfall seasons have been El Niño winters. La Niña winters do look less snowy on the whole.
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