Strongest El Niño Since 1950: What It Actually Means For Duck Season | Chance Gotsch

Chance GMeteorologist Chance Gotsch breaks down what the strongest El Niño since 1950 means for the 2026–27 duck season.

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center has it at a greater than 90% chance of going "very strong." Chance reads the seasonal outlook maps — warmer across the Great Lakes, the Dakotas and western Canada, drier through Missouri, Arkansas and the Atlantic Flyway — and answers what every waterfowler is asking: does El Niño stall the duck migration?

Also in this episode: why snow moves mallards and cold doesn't, how to read wind direction straight off a pressure system, what barometric pressure actually tells you, why your weather app is solid on temperature and unreliable on rain, and how to spot a clickbait polar vortex forecast.

Chance's show: Chance of Storms Outdoors on First Alert 4 (also on Roku, FireTV and AppleTV)Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, the conservation group Chance asked us to link

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