What You Need to Know to Understand the Current El Niño
Williams, Jack ; Null, Jan
By August 2015, people across the West were beginning to dream that a potentially strong El Niño, which NOAA was forecasting for late 2015-early 2016, could bring relief from devastating drought in California and elsewhere in the West.
Clearly, during the summer of 2015, many were pinning their hopes on the fact that the strong El Niño that forecasters were saying should affect global weather during late 2015 and early 2016 could bring drought relief to the western United States. In contrast, when discussing past El Niños, such as the strong one of 1997-1998, the major focus before the El Niño began, while it was occurring, and afterward was not on drought relief but on floods and other related costly and deadly weather events.<br>This difference in focus raises the question: Is El Niño a misunderstood phenomenon?
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