U.S. government weather forecasters said Thursday they expect the La Niña weather phenomenon to take place in the Northern Hemisphere later this year, as El Niño conditions have dissipated.

The forecast means Southern California could experience a drier winter, following a winter that didn’t bring as much rain as expected.

The Climate Prediction Center, an agency of the National Weather Service, said in its monthly forecast La Niña is favored to develop during the summer and pegged the chance of La Niña developing in the fall and winter 2016-17 at 75 percent.