The weather sure has been something to talk about
this year and it seems like it will be for the year ahead. The real question is, how it will impact what
goes on in the business we are all involved with? Last year, we had a very
early spring, due the lack of snow and the mild temperatures, creating the
opportunity to get landscaping projects and sales done very early in the year
and lengthening the landscaping season.
This winter we are seeing the impacts of a somewhat strong El Niño. Simply
put, El Niño is an anomalous, yet periodic, warming of the central and
eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. For reasons still not well understood, every
2-7 years, this patch of ocean warms for 6 to 18 months. This warming impacts
our traditional weather pattern in the US, as well as throughout the
world. Normally, we in Wisconsin see warmer
temperatures and less precipitation in the winter of an El Niño year according
to National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center at NOAA (the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
The National Weather Service is also predicting this El Niño to be unusually
strong, so we are likely to see warmer temperatures and less precipitation
thorough late winter and early spring 2016.
If December is any indication, we certainly had
warmer weather on one hand, but on the other we had a lot of precipitation. Needless to say, it’s only a forecast and we
still have a lot of winter left. Given
this forecast, it appears we may be in for another year of an early
spring. So, I leave this article off
where I started, given this forecast of an early spring how can we use this
information in our businesses to make better business decisions? Some possible
questions to ask and answer: Will we be
ready to take advantage of an early spring? Do we have the materials and labor
needed to get going early? Should we advertise differently, etc.? The bottom line is thinking through how you
decide to act given this information is what is important and will lead to a
possible plan for action whatever that may be.
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