If you want to build a snowman this winter, you’ll be better off in Salt Lake City than Boston.
Or, if you’re taking the kids to sunny Florida’s Disney World over Christmas break, bring a raincoat.
And you might have already noticed that there have been no Atlantic hurricanes so far this year, even at September’s height of the storm season.
That’s because of a chaotic weather phenomenon called El Niño, where Mother Nature temporarily turns up the thermostat in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean. It disrupts the winter weather for much of the globe, and this year has earned the moniker “Super” El Niño, due to the forecasts of record high water temperatures which are already affecting some weather patterns and more is to come.
Read more at Northeastern Global News
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