In this episode, Mike Crimmins and Ben McMahan recap the transitional weather patterns of the last few months of 2015 as we moved from Fall into Winter, and discuss whether this transitional season matched general expectations, given what is expected in an El Niño year. They also discuss what a characteristic southwestern winter pattern looks like, and conclude the podcast with a conversation about how this El Niño event has stacked up so far this winter, and what they anticipate over the next few months. We had a small technical difficulty with the audio quality, but it seems to be mostly fixed. Zack Guido is away on a research project but will join us again in February.