Editors at Wikipedia has labelled the article “El Niño-Southern Oscillation” as current news. Surprised, I checked up the news and it seems Wikipedia is right. The little boy is back:
NEW YORK — El Niño, a warming of equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc with world weather conditions, has formed and will last into 2007, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday.
I remember the last time it struck, life wasn’t too comfortable:
In Asia and South America, the last severe El Niño killed hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in damage as crops shriveled across the Asia-Pacific basin.
With Ramadan around the corner, this will get ugly. But in the same article:
This El Niño has caused drier-than-average conditions across Indonesia, Malaysia and most of the Philippines.
Really? If it’s not, I haven’t felt it. For all I know, it’s been raining for almost everyday for the past few weeks now.
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