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Climate Central: As just about everyone knows, El Niño is a periodic unusual warming of the surface water in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean. Actually, that's pretty much a lie. Most people don't know the definition of El Niño or its mirror image, La Niña, and truthfully, most people don't much care.
What you do care about if you're a Texan suffering through the worst one-year drought on record, or a New Yorker who had to dig out from massive snowstorms last winter (tied in part to La Niña), or......
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Global Warming May Worsen Effects of El Niño, La Niña Events
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 12th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation