Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - When it comes to making predictions for the upcoming winter, meteorologist Andy Parker prefers to take the season in three-week chunks.
You won't see Parker coming out with a long range forecast.
"I always dreaded having to do long range forecasts," Parker told WBEN on Friday.
Parker, who previously worked at WKBW-TV and WGRZ-TV, said it's like a rite of passage for TV stations, but it doesn't really amount to anything.
"They say the same thing every year. It doesn't mean anything," he said. "It's designed to capture some clicks."
Here's what Parker did tell us:
"The stagnant, quiet, calm air that we had in August, September and October
has broken. Were entering a more progressive pattern, which means more waves of precipitation and wind and colder air."
Over the next three weeks, we are going to see some systems come through.
There will be one on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Another one next Thursday. Yet another on the following Saturday and Sunday. Parker said each one is going to start wet and end white.
Is there anything big coming in the next few weeks?
"It doesn't look like it." Parker added, "the earliest hint of anything is between Nov. 10 and 14 where something could start and finish as snow."
Parker said temperature and precipitation trends can be captured in three week windows. Anything beyond that, in his words, "is guess work."