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Why El Niño is a climate wild card

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The Normal Pattern of El Nino Events

Every two to seven years, things swing the other way. The official definition of an El Nino is you have a region of water in the Eastern Pacific where it gets more than half a degree above average for three months running. We reached that this year, just a month ago.

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