While forecasters are monitoring a rapidly strengthening El Nio climate pattern, with a Super El Nio expected to be declared later this year, the Old Farmer's Almanac has released some of its winter predictions and is calling for a White Christmas across the Intermountain West and the Northeast this year.

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN FOR A PLEASANT NOVEMBER AS ABOVE-AVERAGE TEMPERATURES TAKE HOLD According to the Almanac, parts of 16 states are expected to have more than an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

THIS WAS THE LAST NATIONWIDE WHITE THANKSGIVING.