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  • A Powerful El Niño Is Turning Water Into the World’s Weather Fault Line

    A Powerful El Niño Is Turning Water Into the World’s Weather Fault Line

    El Niño is often described as a patch of unusually warm water in the tropical Pacific, but that definition undersells what is now unfolding. When the central and eastern Pacific warm enough, the atmosphere reorganizes around that heat. Tropical rainfall shifts. Jet streams bend. Monsoons can weaken or intensify. Drought risk rises in some regions…