The Loveland Ski Area in Colorado is one of 19 ski areas that participate in the Colorado Ski Country USA ski passport program for schoolchildren. John Meyer/Denver Post file/TNS
A La Niña advisory has officially been issued by the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, and winter conditions across the United States could be affected through February.
The opposite of the weather phenomenon called El Niño, La Niña refers to the condition in which the water temperatures of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean around the equator are cooler than average. That cooling can affect global weather patterns thousands of miles away.
