Monday, October 25, 2010

La Nina Winter


Another winter of wild weather extremes appears to be in store for the USA.
The Pacific Northwest should see a wetter, colder winter than average while most of the Sun Belt stays mild and dry, federal scientists announced in their winter forecast Thursday.

The dominant climate factor expected to affect the USA this winter is La NiƱa, a periodic cooling of tropical Pacific Ocean water that affects weather patterns across the USA and around the world.

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