El Niño, La Niña, and Rainfall

By Richard Chasey, posted on October 28th, 2009 in Earth Observation, Weather

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

For many people, El Niño and La Niña mean floods or drought, but the events are actually a warming or cooling of the eastern Pacific Ocean that impacts rainfall.

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