Things Look El Niño-Ish. but Things Could Change.
In a previous post, I wrote that “El Niño’s comin’ (probably).” Now, it’s probably not too much of a stretch to replace “probably” with “almost but not quite definitely.”
Some of the key aspects of an El Niño, which typically brings drought to some places, deluges to others, and a warmer globe overall, are now firmly in place. This prompted the U.S. Climate Prediction Center yesterday to up the odds of an El Niño occurring during summer in the Northern Hemisphere to 70 percent, and to 80 percent by fall and winter.
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