Current El Niño coming on strong
Major weather upheavals could bring extra rain to California
BY THOMAS SUMNER 11:28AM, JULY 16, 2015
BIG BOY The ongoing El Niño will probably strengthen over the coming months, a new report concludes. A strong event could bring much-needed rain to California and cause weather shifts worldwide.
Climate’s “little boy” is back in a big way.
El Niño, a weather disruption caused by unusually warm seawater in the eastern Pacific, kicked off in March and could become a whopper, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center reported July 9. The agency predicts that El Niño conditions have a more than 90 percent chance of continuing through the Northern Hemisphere winter and around an 80 percent chance of sticking around through spring.
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