AccuWeather released its winter forecast earlier in October, and the private forecaster said that a “bookend winter” is on tap for the central and eastern U.S., with the biggest storms expected around the opening and the final weeks of the season. “It can be an intense stormy winter for areas of the country, particularly across the Midwest, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Northeast and parts of the mid-Atlantic,” AccuWeather lead long-range meteorologist Paul Pastelok said.
