El Niño
About El Niño
El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific, including the area off the Pacific coast of South America.
El Nino drought: Panama Canal cuts ship numbers further
... A naturally occurring El Nino climate pattern associated with warmer-than-usual water in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean is contributing to Panama s drought...
Climate change: How it's endangering Australian wine
... The country is still recovering from years of record-breaking floods, but with an El Nino summer likely to bring dry and hot conditions to much of Australia, panic is growing ahead of the coming fire season...
Why have there been no named winter storms this year?
... Experts believe that rising global temperatures mean that La Nina and El Nino - the opposite of La Nina - events...
Are fires in the Amazon and elsewhere getting worse?
... But this is substantially fewer than many other years including those, such as 2015, exacerbated by the El Nino effect which brought unusually dry weather...
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