Forecast calls for more-normal, colder and snowier winter

It's official now. Fall has come to the Hi-Line - at least the calendar says so, anyway.

And, around these parts, when fall officially arrives, folks usually start wondering about what kind of winter Havre can expect.

With the start of winter now just two months away, and the El Niño pattern that had much of the United States in a warm grip the last two years now over, many weather officials are pointing toward, at the very least, a return to a kind of winter that north-central Montanan's would consider normal.

"The way the patterns are looking right now, for the three-month periods th...