Mild El Nino Developing in Pacific
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A mild El Nino is developing in the Pacific Ocean, climate experts said Friday. El Ninos can affect weather in other areas, sometimes worldwide.
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A La Nina weather pattern could be in  store for spring and summer, which could make it a dry growing  season for grains and soybeans in the US Midwest and Plains, a  private forecaster predicted Friday.
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Significantly more marine debris washes ashore in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during El Nino periods than during La Nina conditions, according to a new study.
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El Nino, a weather pattern that can wreak havoc in the Asia-Pacific region, will stay at least until spring 2007, the monthly report by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that La Nina &#151; a cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season &#151; will be absent for the next two months.
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A weak El Nino during the next three months will mean cooler and wetter weather in part of the U.S. South and drier conditions in some areas of Indonesia, Africa and Australia, U.S. government weather forecasters said on Thursday.
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The weather anomaly La Nina could  influence global weather patterns through the early part of  2008, according to the National Weather Service.
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Moderate quake jolts seas west of Indonesia    HONG KONG, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck the seas west of Sumatra Island, Indonesia, early Monday morning, according to a bulletin released by Hong Kong Observatory on Monday morning.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in  the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the  Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino  is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of  the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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A weak El Nino, the weather anomaly that distorts wind and rainfall patterns worldwide, is expected to develop and affect the United States this fall and winter, U.S. government weather experts said on Thursday.
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Pacific Ocean equatorial waters off  South America have warmed, indicating a weak-to-moderate El  Nino weather phenomenon this year, the World Meteorological  Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Mar. 9--El Nino's winter moisture is dead, and La Nina's drying trend appears on its way to New Mexico, forecasters say.
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The La Nina weather anomaly may form  in the equatorial Pacific in the next two to three months,  possibly increasing the risks for more hurricanes later this  year in the Atlantic.
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A La Nina weather pattern could be in store for spring and summer, which could make it a dry growing season for grains and soybeans in the US Midwest and Plains, a private forecaster predicted Friday.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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A University of Colorado weather expert has warned the El Nino weather pattern over the Pacific Ocean could survive past the upcoming spring.
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Warming water temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate the start of a new El Nino.