El Niño is officially here, and this 1 could be a doozy
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Super El Nino is coming our way. We are not ready for what’s in store
Super El Nino is coming our way. We are not ready for what’s in store - IN FOCUS: As meteorologists’ worst fears were answered this week with the confirmation of the most powerful weather pattern of its kind in seven decades,
The National Weather Service warns a potentially historic El Niño could bring severe winter storms, heavy rain, and tidal flooding to Southern California.
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El Niño is coming faster than expected and chances are rising that it will be historically strong
El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter.
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El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Niño, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
Super El Niño is basically a very strong El Niño event. If the temperature of the eastern Pacific is over half a degree Celius above average, it qualifies as an El Niño event. Once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 degrees, people call it a very strong or Super El Niño event.
An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.
The weather event - which can bring droughts, floods and record temperatures - has officially arrived, and could grow to peak strength The phenomenon El Nino has arrived, the US weather agency said on Thursday,
