Can anyone explain (in simple terms) exactly what 'El Nino' is and how it affects the weather.
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jangobean
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i asked this a long time ago and i got that it is a weather pattern in which the oceans evaporate water and the air rises up into higher parts of the atmosphere and moves along to places
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the phenomenon describes a change in the temperature of the surface of the eastern pacific ocean (around the tropics). the cause is yet to be scientific determined but there are some hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_ni%C3%B1o#Causes_of_El_Ni.C3.B1o). El niño efects are explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_ni%C3%B1o#Wider_effects_of_El_Ni.C3.B1o_conditions
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