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Explainer: What is El Niño and why it matters
Original: Explainer: What is El Niño?
El Niño is a natural climate pattern marked by unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, which shifts global weather. It can bring heavier rain and flooding to parts of the Americas, drought to Australia, Southeast Asia and southern Africa, and generally pushes global temperatures higher. News outlets are running explainers to help readers understand its impacts.
Why now: An El Niño event is developing or in the news, prompting demand for plain-language explanations of its global weather effects.
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- Explainer: What is El Niño? · New Scientist
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