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The U.S. issued an "El Niño Watch" on Thursday morning, meaning that the likelihood of an El Niño event developing in the tropical Pacific Ocean during the next several months has crept above 50% for the first time. Scientists told Mashable that the Pacific Ocean appears to be primed for a potentially significant El Niño event, with changes observed in the trade winds that typically blow from east to west along and north of the equator, along with sea surface and subsurface temperature trends that are also suggestive of a developing event.
Lately, "westerly wind bursts" have helped reverse the easterly trade winds, helping to push warmer than average water from the western Pacific to the eastern Pacific, said Michelle L'Heureux, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center in Maryland, which issued the watch. Read more...
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