As Christmas season draws closer, meteorologists announce that El Niño, the other “Christmas boy,” is strengthening in the Pacific. El Niño isn’t a storm. It means warmer than usual ocean waters off the coasts of California and southward into South America.
Rudi Kiefer's Earth Sense: El Nio is on the way
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