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The Sal Nino Event Is Emerging Now

It's more likely to be a few weeks. When the patterns change again, then we'd expect this to go away. But of course, we still see warmer temperatures because the climate is already warmer. The El Nino effect itself will last several months. And El Nino event generally lasts for many months. We won't have seen the peak of it. It peaks around Christmas time,. which is the reason for the name 'El Nino' in Spanish. Although, you know, we're in June at the moment, and we're already seeing these effects. Is that a reason to be concerned? So this makes us wonder how big the Sal Nino event is going to be

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