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El Niño makes a comeback, but La Niña could bring dry conditions back to California

After a year of dominance, El Niño’s rampage is over; But its climate-wrecking counterpart, La Niña, is immediately warming and could signal a return to dryness for California. El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, sometimes called ENSO. The climate pattern in the tropical Pacific is the largest driver of… Read More »