Every album that I write is supposed to convey the arc of an emotional weather pattern I've been having, and finishing the album is what triggers the next emotional weather pattern.
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It seemed more a weather pattern than a technological event.
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That weather pattern could soon change, heating waters up quickly.
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More worryingly, the warming weather pattern is producing a circular affect.
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This massive, hurricane-like weather pattern could fit three Earths inside it.
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The El Nino weather pattern typically brings dry weather to many regions.
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Go deeper: Rare, explosive weather pattern targets U.S. with snow, tornadoes, heat
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The weather pattern promises to stay active, the National Weather Service said.
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This strange weather pattern has been with us for more than a week.
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Thank (or blame) a stall in the weather pattern called an omega block.
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The relatively wet El Niño weather pattern also helped prevent fires, analysts found.
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A weak El Niño weather pattern is likely to suppress hurricane activity, NOAA said.
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It said temperatures had begun to fall because of the La Nina weather pattern.
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It has forecast that the La Nina weather pattern will strengthen from mid-2016.
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This is not an ideal weather pattern for enhanced rainfall production in these areas.
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A weather pattern known as El Nino has brought pockets of rain to California.
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It is a weather pattern that makes Atlanta feel like Seattle -- but only colder.
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International forecasters see the arrival of La Nina weather pattern increasingly likely this year.
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The most recent La Niña weather pattern began in mid-2010 and continued until 2012.
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A weather pattern that stuck around longer than usual created a dangerous mix of conditions.
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California was girding in 2015 for a soaking El Niño weather pattern that never came.
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"We see that it did correspond with a change in the weather pattern," Ahlstrøm said.
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The El Niño weather pattern helped, but scientists say the main factor was greenhouse gas emissions.
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But he added it was not as severe as the El Nino weather pattern in 2015.
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Winds to rustle leaves Another consolation to the busy weather pattern will be bouts of wind.
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The same weather pattern has been responsible for burdensome rainfall amounts recently from Wisconsin to Ohio.
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Last year's El Nino dry weather pattern has affected production of palm trees in the region.
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"Because it's caused by a local and regional weather pattern, not by climate change," she said.
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They also follow a strong El Niño, a weather pattern characterized by an overheated Pacific Ocean.
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The La Niña weather pattern, the opposite to El Niño, could be about to kick in.
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And the El Niño weather pattern -- with warming, eastward-moving Pacific waters -- contributed to the new benchmark.
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Maduro and other government officials blame the El Niño weather pattern and epic drought for the problem.
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Last year's blazes were exacerbated by a mild El Nino weather pattern, which prolonged the dry season.
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"The warmer weather pattern looks like at least for the next 10 days or so," said Seto.
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The winter storm will give way to a "quieter weather pattern," according to the National Weather Service.
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The name is actually a weather pattern that occurs most frequently in the Midwest and the South.
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The colder winter was largely caused by a well-known fluctuating weather pattern, called the Arctic Oscillation.
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A persistent weather pattern has been setting the stage for the current spike in melting, according to Mote.
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What weather pattern has been dumping an immense amount of heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere?
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The socialist government says the El Nino weather pattern is to blame for Venezuela's water and power problems.
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"This weather pattern may not be a sustained change," said Joel Widenor, meteorologist with the Commodity Weather Group.
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Greenland, however, had below average temperatures for the month, though that weather pattern reversed itself in early May.
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If you get that weather pattern, you'll have remarkably hot and dry weather in Western Europe, no question.
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The weather pattern is slated to reach Arkansas 24 hours later, then Missouri after that, followed by Indiana.
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These options will help you trek through winter sludge, summer rains, and every inclement weather pattern in between.
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What is different about this storm from previous storms, in terms of its power, duration and weather pattern?
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And as an El Niño weather pattern takes hold, forecasters think that 2019 could become the hottest year ever.
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La Nina is a weather pattern that brings equatorial Pacific Ocean temperatures, rainfall patterns and winds closer to average.
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Farmers are now looking for development of a La Nina weather pattern, which typically brings wetter weather across Asia.
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Because of a hot weather pattern, it isn't expected to clear until the end of the week at least.
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The result was surprising because there was no El Niño, the weather pattern usually linked to record-setting heat.
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Dangerously low temperatures When this weather pattern happens, temperatures will usually fall well below average across much of the country.
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There were high hopes that the drought fever would break last winter, thanks to an El Niño-related weather pattern.
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It is there that this weather pattern was first triggered, but there were many accomplices in this cold weather crime.
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Meisel said there appeared to be an El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific, but signs of that were weakening.
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It is thought the children were sacrificed as floods caused by the El Niño weather pattern ravaged the Peruvian coastline.
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Indonesia has been battling forest fires for months as the El Nino weather pattern this year exacerbated the annual drought.
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Yellow fever was spread through mosquitoes, and eventually a cold weather pattern proved much more effective in stopping the disease.
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A much colder weather pattern is expected in the coming weeks, which should clear up the fog as the rivers freeze.
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There are some signs that Dennis may have been sufficiently large and intense to cause this persistent weather pattern to change.
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While the weather pattern — linked to a localized, off-year version of El Niño — is abnormal, the human costs were predictable.
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The chances of the weather pattern continuing through the fall season were at 55 percent to 60 percent, the CPC added.
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The storms, followed by another weather pattern that also favors ice loss, are leading to more sea ice melt, he says.
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Malawi's maize crop, the staple grain, was devastated last year by a regional drought triggered by an El Nino weather pattern.
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The El Nino weather pattern, commonly blamed for the unusually mild winter across the United States, is rapidly disappearing (tmsnrt.rs/1TtGEfl).
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The CPC said chances of the weather pattern continuing through the fall season were slightly lower at 50 to 55 percent.
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ET. Late flights and cancellations awaited fliers again on Tuesday as a stormy weather pattern remained entrenched along the East Coast.
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The West has been gripped by a high-pressure system that's prevented the current hot, dry weather pattern from moving along.
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The same weather pattern that produced the heat wave, featuring a sluggish and wavy jet stream, had more disastrous consequences downstream.
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In what is more like a January weather pattern, a strong storm will push through California over the next couple of days.
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The storms are the first of a weather pattern expected to bring above-average rainfall to California over the next few months.
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Officials warned of critical fire conditions and a "very dangerous weather pattern" across California through the weekend going into early next week.
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Drought from the El Nino weather pattern in 2016 and 2015 will have no lingering impact in 2017, its top executive said.
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Higher amounts, possibly as much as 10 to 12 inches of rain, are within the realm of possibility from this weather pattern.
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Such fires rage every year, but in 20143 a dry spell caused by the El Niño weather pattern made them especially severe.
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This year's El Niño weather pattern, which causes global climate extremes, has worsened floods in some parts of South America, including Argentina.
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The central US is about to get ravaged by the world's most badass-sounding severe weather pattern, the New York Times reports.
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This year's dry season is affected by a mild El Nino weather pattern, said Fachri Radjab at Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency.
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Forecasters in Japan and Australia also see a 40-50 percent chance of the El Nino weather pattern developing later this year.
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"El Nino is also not over yet," Moenarji added, referring to the weather pattern that has been linked to serious crop damage.
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But NOAA said another weather pattern, the Madden Julian Oscillation, is more likely responsible for the enhanced rainfall along the West Coast.
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The overall weather pattern is extremely favorable for a monster storm to form and meander close to the East Coast for days.
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The stage is set for a dramatic change in the weather pattern across the Northern Hemisphere during the next seven to 22017 days.
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The El Nino weather pattern has affected the amount of rain in southern Africa, including in South Africa, the region's biggest maize grower.
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Trump isn't a character; he's more like a weather pattern that spins around the characters' weather vanes so they're disoriented, but still intact.
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Eventually, the weather pattern will evolve to result in a starkly divided country between an unusually cold West and an unusually mild Southeast.
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The overall weather pattern in which this nor'easter is forming is going to prevent the storm from skipping east, out to sea, quickly.
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The El Nino weather pattern has also brought poor rains to other countries in the region, including South Africa, its biggest maize grower.
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We don't know yet whether the S.S.W. pattern drove warming in the Arctic this year and whether climate change influenced this weather pattern.
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The country has spent months this year battling blazes as the El Nino weather pattern has caused a more severe annual dry season.
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But so far this winter real cold snaps have yet to show up, thanks to an El Nino weather pattern gripping North Asia.
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Swaths of Kansas and Ohio could see lower temperatures as the weather pattern moves south over the next 24 hours, Mr. Oravec said.
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We live, for the moment, in that rare baseball weather pattern in which the skies are sunnier over Queens than over the Bronx.
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And unless a major weather pattern change happens soon, it is becoming more likely that a new record low could be set this year.
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Africa's most industrialized country implemented nationwide water restrictions last year after an El Nino weather pattern brought drought conditions to much of southern Africa.
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Opposition blames corruption, mismanagement Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other government officials blame the El Niño weather pattern and epic drought for the problem.
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February saw a shifting weather pattern that helped to push all that atmospheric moisture far, far north, perhaps because El Niño is so powerful.
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But help may be on the way in the form of a developing La Nina weather pattern -- it just may not arrive until 2017.
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The Philippine crop is suffering mounting drought damage, just as the country's big Asian rice suppliers also suffer from an El Nino weather pattern.
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The breakdown: Super cold air is usually trapped in the Arctic by the polar vortex, a massive circular weather pattern around the North Pole.
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But due in part to an El Nino weather pattern, Northern California last winter saw more rain than it has received in five years.
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While today is the week's warmest day, a mild weather pattern hangs around through the workweek in which highs should top 245 each day.
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Hurricane Florence was part of an overall busy weather pattern as forecasters tracked four tropical storms in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on Sunday.
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Last year would have been the warmest on record even without the El Niño weather pattern that developed late in the year, Schmidt said.
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This year's hot spots are the most numerous since devastating blazes in 2015, as an El Nino weather pattern exacerbates the annual dry spell.
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"Now it's to the point that this fire is creating its own weather pattern," says Shayne Mintz, regional director for Canada's National Fire Protection Association.
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The South African Weather Service said on Friday the El Nino weather pattern could return in the spring, which usually occurs from August to October.
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In 2012, at least 95 percent of the ice sheet experienced some melting due to a prevailing weather pattern that favored unusually mild conditions there.
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Meteorologists also see signs that an El Nino condition is developing in the Pacific, a weather pattern created by warmer water temperatures in the Pacific.
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By 2013, however, the rate of melt appeared to pause, which the researchers linked to a cyclical weather pattern known as the North Atlantic Oscillation.
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Amplified weather pattern will bring pulses of well above average temperatures (>20°C departures) to the #Arctic once again, especially near Alaska and northwestern Canada.
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The chances of a La Niña weather pattern are about 55-60 percent, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center said in a monthly forecast.
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Interestingly, this next nor'easter hitting tonight is likely to help change the current weather pattern, with the Greenland block breaking down somewhat in coming days.
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Eastern and southern Africa were particularly hard hit in 2016 by the El Nino weather pattern that brought catastrophic heavy rainfall, flash flooding and landslides.
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In truth, he said it's especially hard to predict El Ninos, because the unusual weather pattern only rolls around once every 10 or 15 years.
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Kuczynski, a 78-year-old economist, said Peru has not seen such extreme rains since the powerful global El Nino weather pattern of 13-1998.
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The worst El Nino weather pattern in 20 years wilted grass and dried out dams in parts of Australia, pushing slaughter numbers to record highs.
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Rising sea levels and an abnormal El Niño weather pattern mean 2019 will break annual flooding records, federal scientists predicted in a report released Wednesday.
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Forecasters have reason to be psyched right now, given strong hints for what could be a major weather pattern realignment during the next two weeks.
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On Wednesday, Cohen tweeted that it also contains some similarities to the weather pattern from December 2013, which kicked off the notorious polar vortex winter.
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The Capital Weather Gang is reporting that today brings a cooler, cloudier and more unsettled weather pattern, which will stick around D.C. into next week.
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The problems at the dam here stem from an El Niño weather pattern that has brought the worst drought in decades to parts of Africa.
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The El Nino weather pattern has brought poor rains to already-parched southern Africa, hitting crops, including in South Africa, the region's biggest maize grower.
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There are signs that the weather pattern warms in the second half of January and cold is unlikely to dominate in the weeks after that.
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Our Climate Desk wrote about the weather wars — between climate advocates and deniers — that ensue every time we get a weather pattern of this magnitude.
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A bone-chilling, frigid air mass will soon stretch from Ireland to Siberia, as a record-shattering weather pattern establishes itself across the North Atlantic Ocean.
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These will act as so-called "blocking highs," slowing the progression of weather systems and effectively keeping the weather pattern in place for an extended period.
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The chances of the weather pattern continuing through the fall and winter were a bit lower, at 50% to 55%, the U.S. government weather forecaster said.
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Tilden, a 44-year-old math teacher and Republican from Sioux City, thinks otherwise: "I've noticed essentially the same weather pattern every single year," he said.
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Last month, it had pegged the chances of the El Niño weather pattern continuing through the fall and winter a bit lower at 50% to 55%.
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The current system, which has caused this wet-weather pattern, is expected to remain over the lower Mississippi River Valley through the weekend, according to Guy.
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The pictures resembled a scene one would see in Florida, which has been dubbed the lightning capital of the US. What's driving this strange weather pattern?
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The extreme burst of global temperature records waned late in the year as the cooler La Niña weather pattern replaced El Niño in the tropical Pacific.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday it sees a 50 percent chance of the El Nino weather pattern emerging by the beginning of autumn.
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The expectation of the weather pattern continuing through summer stood at 60 percent, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) added in its monthly forecast.
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The chance of the neutral weather pattern continuing through summer 2020 is 50%, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
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Scientists say this year's El Nino weather pattern is likely a key factor in the red tide, as it warms the ocean and creates bloom-friendly conditions.
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During El Niño years, the planet often sees a larger jump in planet-warming carbon dioxide, because of weather pattern changes and how ecosystems respond to them.
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An El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought conditions across the region which hit the staple maize and other crops and dented economic growth.
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For the next week to 10 days, air temperature departures from average could reach 50 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the Arctic as this weather pattern continues.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The prospects of an El Nino weather pattern forming in the next few months has risen significantly, the South African Weather Service said on Monday.
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But none of these were more symbolic of our struggle with the wicked weather pattern than this Lamborghini that dared to drive where SUVs would not tread.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Drought conditions associated with an El Nino weather pattern are likely to reoccur in a few months time, the South African government said on Thursday.
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This weather pattern may last beyond July 24, which would also mean the public health threat could be sizable despite a relative lack of record-shattering temperatures.
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The bureau had previously indicated that a strong El Nino weather pattern would likely end in the second quarter of 2016 and a La Nina could follow.
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Some meteorologists are predicting a weather pattern next year known as La Niña, the opposite of an El Niño, meaning that rainfall levels are significantly below normal.
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These climate shifts are reinforced by the recurring El Nino weather pattern, which happens when water in the Pacific Ocean becomes abnormally warm, altering global weather patterns.
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Last month, the CPC said that El Niño conditions had formed in January and there was a 55-percent chance the weather pattern will prevail through spring.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Monday there is a 70% chance the El Nino weather pattern will extend into the northern hemisphere summer this year.
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The Met Office said the rate of global warming slowed between 1999 and 2014, but has now picked up due to a "flip" in the Pacific weather pattern.
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Relief is due with the arrival of the monsoon in mid-June, and because of the impending La Nina weather pattern, the forecast is for above-average rainfall.
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"Some U.S. corn regions are returning to a drier weather pattern over the next week or so," said Tobin Gorey, director of agricultural strategy, Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States will close out March under a particularly active weather pattern, and the associated rainfall will be welcomed by many farmers across the country.
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This month, a slower-moving weather pattern in the high atmosphere (jet stream) allowed a mass of hot air from Africa to sit over Europe, baking the continent.
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Brazil and Argentina will be harvesting their corn between now and August, and could steal some business from the United States if the relatively benign weather pattern continues.
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Concerns over water supply in Africa's most industrialized country have risen after an El Nino weather pattern brought drought conditions to much of southern Africa, hurting agriculture output.
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But, after an eternity of being a sunbather's worst nightmare, the dreaded weather pattern has finally found a place where it can be appreciated: in your beauty routine.
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No one can predict forces of nature, but it's not difficult to research the typical weather pattern for the time and location of your wedding, and plan accordingly.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An ongoing El Nino weather pattern is now at moderate levels, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday, as associated climate indicators have eased.
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The chances of the weather pattern continuing through spring 2020 is at 60% to 65%, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
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An El Nino weather pattern this year has intensified annual dry-season fires, often caused by slash-and-burn clearing of forests and bush for farming, including plantations.
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But this is "an amplified weather pattern," he said, as the notably wavy jet will allow a significant, more intense weather contrast to manifest in the Lower 48.
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An El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought conditions across the southern African region that hit the staple, maize, and other crops and dented economic growth.
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It could be the result of a very specific combination of weather patterns Recently, we've been stuck in a specific weather pattern than creates a perfect environment for tornadoes.
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The weather service had said earlier this month that the El Nino weather pattern could return in the spring or summer season which usually occurs from September to October.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is bolstering its rural flood defenses to help farmers protect crops from monsoon waters and the La Nina weather pattern, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
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The most important and the trickiest climate condition to keep an eye on is El Niño, a recurring weather pattern that brings warm waters to the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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"Some U.S. corn regions are returning to a drier weather pattern over the next week or so," said Tobin Gorey, director of agricultural strategy at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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Every winter, an extremely cold pool of air forms over the Arctic and is normally trapped in the polar vortex, a gigantic circular weather pattern around the North Pole.
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Policymakers cited a sharp increase in food prices, a drought caused by the El Nino weather pattern, and the devaluation of the currency as reasons for the rate hike.
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Last November, the World Meteorological Organization said that 2015 would be the hottest on record globally, and 2016 could be even hotter due to the El Niño weather pattern.
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Like a tropical weather pattern, the controversy over statues honoring historical figures of dubious renown has moved North, its arrival heralded by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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An El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought conditions across the southern African region, hitting the staple, maize, and other crops and denting demand for fertilisers.
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A mild El Nino weather pattern this year has aggravated the impact of fires, with the number of hot spots rising to the highest since devastating fires in 663.
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An active weather pattern continues for the area with some quick showers today, mild weather tomorrow and then colder weather for the end of this week into the weekend.
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Monsoon rains are likely to be unaffected by the El Nino weather pattern, which is expected to set in only after the four-month rainy season ends in September.
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The cold weather pattern is expected to persist through the weekend, the NWS said, adding that a reinforcing shot of arctic air is currently taking shape over northwestern Canada.
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This year something else is keeping them awake: In late August the government issued a warning about a potential El Niño weather pattern, associated with changes in weather patterns worldwide.
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The weather pattern that is going to take shape features a wavy jet stream, with big swings to the north and the south, like a snake slithering along a path.
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As with much of southern Africa, southern Angola has been suffering one of its worst droughts in memory caused by a strong El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean.
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Under the pilot project funded by the Philippines government and FAO, two unmanned drones have already been sent to provinces affected by the El Nino weather pattern, the FAO said.
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The United Nations World Food Programme said some 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau on Wednesday said the El Nino weather pattern appeared to be continuing, with an 80 percent chance it would stretch into the northern hemisphere summer.
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Reportedly, 2016's heat — the highest in 137 years — came from a combination of a warming trend caused by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the El Niño weather pattern.
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The presence of a warming weather pattern known as El Niño pushed global temperatures above normal values in both 2015 and 2016, but the researchers stress this wasn't the only cause.
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Such a polar vortex disruption is forecast to be part of the reason why the weather pattern will change so drastically across such a broad area during the next few weeks.
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The fire was creating its own weather pattern and shifted northward into Lower Lake in the afternoon, said Suzie Blankenship, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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"A number of factors worked in our favor in the second quarter, including a normalized weather pattern, which contributed to a sales lift in our apparel business in particular," Lundgren said.
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Golden Agri's palm product output in the first quarter rose 26 percent to 696,000 tonnes as the crop damaging dryness linked to an El Nino weather pattern gradually faded, it said.
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An increase in greenhouse gas emissions and El Niño, a weather pattern that warms parts of the Pacific Ocean, has contributed to temperature increases in 2016, scientists said earlier this year.
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Dam levels have fallen to 53 percent as an El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought conditions across southern Africa and placing millions at risk of food shortages.
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Philadelphia was due to get 4 to 6 inches of snow, though even a slight shift in the weather pattern could boost that forecast to 8 to 12 inches, he said.
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Rather than chart a fugitive moment in a shifting weather pattern, it immerses us in an entire climate: a meteorological environment with the potential for generating a full spectrum of moods.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Weather Service has said the likelihood of an El Nino weather pattern, which brought a scorching drought to southern Africa last year, returning later this year has decreased.
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But while this periodic weather pattern is partly to blame for bringing the heat, the central problem remains ongoing climate change as a result of human activity, according to NASA and NOAA.
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"With the arrival of the onshore weather pattern yesterday, firefighters will take advantage of lower wind speeds and directly attack any remaining hot spots," the Los Angeles Fire Department said Sunday morning.
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World rice production is expected to decline for the first time this year since 2010, as failing rains linked to an El Nino weather pattern cut crop yields in Asia's rice bowl.
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TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau on Wednesday said the El Nino weather pattern appeared to be continuing, with an 80 percent chance it would stretch into the northern hemisphere summer.
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The evolving weather pattern for January into February, Butler says, looks to feature: Colder-than-average conditions in Eurasia and the eastern U.S. Warmer-than-average conditions over Greenland and subtropical Asia.
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The chances of the weather pattern continuing through the fall season were slightly lower at 55 to 60 percent, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) added in its monthly forecast.
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Water is already scarce in South Africa, which is in the midst of its worst drought in over 100 years as an El-Nino weather pattern has caused rainfall levels to plummet.
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Centuries ago, "good" vintages in early harvest years, especially for Pinot Noir or Chardonnay, benefited from a pretty common weather pattern: cool, very wet weather followed rapidly by a very warm drought.
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An El Nino weather pattern typically brings scorching heat across Southeast Asia, and knock-on effects from last year's event has lowered palm output in top growers Indonesia and Malaysia this year.
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Human CO23 emissions from sources such as coal, oil, cement and deforestation reached a record in 2016, and the El Niño weather pattern gave CO2 levels a further boost, the WMO said.
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Scientists generally attribute the string of record-breaking heat to manmade climate change, noting that the potent El Niño weather pattern that drove up global temperatures last winter has long since ended.
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The hottest year on record was 2016, when a recurring weather pattern called El Nino pushed the average surface temperature to 1.2 Celsius (2.2 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the WMO said.
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Meanwhile, palm oil prices are expected to fall towards year-end as output recovers in the wake of an El Nino weather pattern in 2015-16 and in line with seasonal trends.
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To understand why there has been such a barrage of storms, one must look to the large-scale weather pattern in place across the Northern Hemisphere that led up to this stormy period.
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December promises to be far colder in these areas as the weather pattern changes from the Pacific Ocean across North America, though it is unclear whether record highs will still outnumber record lows.
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Despite rains having picked up this month, forecasters' concerns persist that an El Nino weather pattern could result in below-average rainfall this season, said Tamburiro Pasipangodya of the Zimbabwe Meteorological Services Department.
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The cyclonic winds Juno discovered extend deeper into the planet than any similar weather pattern on Earth — as far as 1,900 miles, or 3,000 kilometers, into Jupiter, constituting about 1% of its mass.
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Tapley said El Nino, which brought drought to parts of Asia last year and impacted India's monsoon, has been weakening since November at a slower pace than previous examples of that weather pattern.
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India could emerge unscathed from the El Nino weather pattern as it is expected to set in only during the latter part of the four-month monsoon season, Ramesh told Reuters last month.
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Even without a strong El Nino weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, 2015 would have broken the existing temperature records, they said, and temperatures are expected to rise in the future as well.
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The Southeast Asian country has been fighting the worst drought and sea water intrusion in 90 years in its Mekong Delta food basket, brought on by climate change and El Nino weather pattern.
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This was the latest round of extreme precipitation unleashed by a weather pattern meteorologists call an "atmospheric river" - a dense plume of moisture flowing from the tropical Pacific into California and the West.
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"There might be some cool outbreaks from time to time but the general spring outlook is for a warm-weather pattern," said Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist on the call.
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The chances of the weather pattern continuing through the fall and winter were a bit lower at 50% to 55%, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) added in its monthly forecast.
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Several parts of Southeast Asia have endured unusually dry conditions in recent months including Indonesia, which has seen very little rain because of an El Nino weather pattern, its meteorological department has said.
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Several parts of Southeast Asia have seen unusually dry conditions in recent months including Indonesia, which has seen very little rain because of an El Nino weather pattern, its meteorological department has said.
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Although it shows some signs of weakening, the heat dome may intensify again by early next week, raising the possibility of a prolonged hot and dry weather pattern in an already parched region.
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With an El Nino weather pattern causing an extended dry spell, Indonesia closed schools this week, as well as providing oxygen at health centers, with thousands suffering respiratory infections due to choking smoke.
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The weather pattern that has set off violent storms and flooding from the Texas Panhandle north to Iowa will remain in place for at least the next three or four days, he said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday there was a high possibility that a La Nina weather pattern would emerge in summer after the current El Nino phenomenon ends, reiterating an earlier forecast.
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South Africa remains in the grip of a drought that is not expected to ease soon, with the El Nino weather pattern, which faded in May of 2016, forecast to reform again around September.
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The possibility of a transition to El Niño weather-pattern is nearing 50 percent by the 2018-19 Northern Hemisphere winter, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
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In November, net shorts held by speculators reached a five-year high of 166,165 contracts on forecasts for light heating demand this winter due to the warming effect of the El Niño weather pattern.
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The drought, which extends to South Africa, the continent's biggest maize producer, has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and follows dry spells last year that affected countries from Zimbabwe to Malawi.
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Once the storm curves north of Japan, it could impart enough energy to the North Pacific jet stream to alter the weather pattern across thousands of miles, all the way to the United States.
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In 2015 and 2016, the planetary warming was intensified by the weather pattern known as El Niño, in which the Pacific Ocean released a huge burst of energy and water vapor into the atmosphere.
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Drought has hit large parts of the archipelago as a mild El Nino weather pattern disrupts the dry season, weather officials say, with its peak now expected to run from mid-August to mid-September.
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"The same overall weather pattern — a stalled system of low pressure — triggered the heavy rains in both France and Germany, but affected each country very differently," said Karsten Haustein from Oxford University, in a statement.
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Scientists blame a severe drought, coupled with hotter temperatures caused by the El Niño weather pattern, a warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide and tends to push up global temperatures.
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Researchers say several factors brewing for weeks converged to lead to such a prolific outbreak of tornadoes, but they're rooted in a weather pattern that originated halfway around the globe more than a month ago.
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El Nino is beginning its assault on the United States, but officials around the world are already beginning to prepare for the La Nina weather pattern set to emerge later this year, Bloomberg Business reports.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Heavy rainfall linked to the El Nino weather pattern can push up cholera cases in Africa, according to a study published on Monday that could help health workers prepare for outbreaks.
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The weather pattern, which develops every seven years or so, has been blamed for everything from a warm winter in the United States to the massive flooding triggered by Storm Frank in the United Kingdom.
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As signs of a similar drought-heralding El Nino weather pattern formed five years later, aid agencies moved quickly and averted another famine and widescale loss of lives during a drought in 2016 and 2017.
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Confidence: High The weather pattern stalls out Friday and Saturday, so we continue cold and breezy with partly sunny skies and highs in the mid-40s Friday, only the upper 30s to low 40s Saturday.
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Specifically, this could mean subpar moisture for the winter wheat crop and a drier start to the U.S. corn and soybean planting campaign for some areas, unless last year's weather pattern is able to repeat.
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It is unclear why mosquito populations have proliferated, although many experts point to the humidity and rainfall caused by El Niño, a weather pattern that recently led to flooding across swaths of northeastern Argentina and Paraguay.
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Meanwhile, an expected plentiful monsoon would boost agricultural expansion as seasonal rainfall is likely to be unaffected by an El Nino weather pattern forecast to set in after the four-month rainy season ends in September.
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The weather pattern across North America and into the Arctic is volatile and bizarre for this time of year, with unusually mild conditions continuing to surge into the Arctic while frigid air is being pulled south.
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The southern African region is suffering from a harsh drought made more severe by the longest El Niño weather pattern in decades, which could affect up to 50 million people, according to the World Food Programme.
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One large fund, along with a mid-cap fund, saw opportunities in agricultural products as the El Nino weather pattern curbs output in key exporting countries such as Australia and Brazil, sources at the funds said.
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There is some evidence connecting such "warm Arctic, cold continents" weather pattern to increased air and sea surface temperatures in the Arctic, which some researchers argue is having downstream effects far away from the Arctic Circle.
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Many of these countries - especially in southern and eastern Africa - have been badly affected by severe drought, linked to the 2015/2016 El Nino weather pattern, that left millions of people in need of food aid.
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An El Nino weather pattern that has triggered a drought in South Africa remains on track to keep conditions hot and dry for the rest of the southern hemisphere summer, the meteorological agency said last week.
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Chances of an El Niño weather pattern remain high, which would bring more intense heat and dryness to Ivory Coast cocoa growing regions, a bullish signal, said Peter Mooses, a senior market strategist at RJO Futures.
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However, the chances that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation-neutral (ENSO) weather pattern will continue through spring 2020 is at 55% to 60%, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
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The Southeast Asian country has spent months battling fires, often caused by slash-and-burn farming practices, as an El Nino weather pattern exacerbates the annual dry season and helps create a haze across the region.
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An additional kick was supplied by an El Niño weather pattern that peaked in 2016 and temporarily warmed much of the surface of the planet, causing the hottest year in a historical record dating to 1880.
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The major driver of the weather pattern will be an upper-level low pressure area that will set up shop over eastern Texas and stubbornly drift slowly northeastward during the middle to late part of this week.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An El Nino weather pattern, which brought a scorching drought to southern Africa last year, could return in the spring which usually occurs from August to October, the South African Weather Service said on Friday.
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However, Nasution cautioned against a premature rate cut by BI, saying inflation might accelerate later in the year if the government adjusts prices after the April 17 elections or if the El Nino weather pattern hits crops.
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Depending where you live in the U.S., you might experience severe thunderstorms, flooding rains, sizzling heat, or unseasonable cold and snow during the next five days as an unusually divisive weather pattern develops across the Lower 48.
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By mapping and comparing cholera outbreaks in Africa with previous occurrences of El Nino, researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) saw a clear link between rainfall caused by the weather pattern and the number of cholera cases.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Seven out of eight models monitored by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) now indicate that a threshold for a La Nina weather pattern will be breached by September, the weather agency said on Tuesday.
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The reason for the soaking weather pattern is a powerful plunge of the jet stream – by July standards – which has carved into the East and will sit in place for the next several days, according to weather.com.
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A shift in the weather pattern is now forecast to bring much more humid conditions to many fire-stricken areas across eastern Australia, helping to control the blazes or even extinguish some, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
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There has been a constant battle between an El Niño-influenced weather pattern, featuring milder-than-average conditions across much of the country, and Arctic-influenced air masses that have brought snow to the Midwest and eastern seaboard.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After slightly slowing for the past 15 years, global warming is once again rising more quickly due to a decade-long weather pattern that warms and cools the Pacific, Britain's meterological office said Monday.
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Scientists started predicting a global temperature record months ago, in part because an El Niño weather pattern, one of the largest in a century, is releasing an immense amount of heat from the Pacific Ocean into the atmosphere.
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Scientists say the drought is being exacerbated by an exceptionally strong El Nino weather pattern, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that occurs every few years with ripple effects around the globe.
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However, the estimated 10.4-percent rise in production to 1.39 million tonnes would be below the kind of increases typically chalked up at the time of year due to lingering effects from last year's El Nino weather pattern.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency as well as Australia's Bureau of Meteorology both said this month there was a 70 percent chance an El Nino weather pattern could emerge this year, causing unusually warm winters in the northern hemisphere.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A delay in the onset of the La Nina weather pattern this year is likely to buoy crops across key growing regions in the United States, Australia and India, a leading weather forecaster said on Thursday.
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Fires were particularly bad in 2015 because of a prolonged dry season caused by the El Nino weather pattern, with smoke blanketing neighboring Singapore and Malaysia for weeks and drifting as far north as the Thai capital, Bangkok.
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El Niño is a weather pattern caused when the trade winds stop moving, essentially reversing the weather: Australia and South Asia experience drought instead of rain; the Pacific Coast of South America is drenched by a rainy season.
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The heat wave currently bearing down on Greenland comes courtesy of the same weather pattern that caused Western Europe to experience its hottest day on record on Thursday—a strong, high pressure air mass associated with mild temperatures.
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The probability that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation-neutral (ENSO) weather pattern will then continue through the spring of 2020 is at 55% to 60%, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
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This high-flying fallout could have been picked up by a different weather pattern at its elevated altitude, guiding it northeast towards Cherepovets, in contrast to the subsequent steam explosion that ruptured the reactor, which spewed debris northwest.
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A change in the weather pattern will bring relief for the nation through the weekend and into early next week, with less rainfall predicted over the next five days for the areas hardest-hit by flooding, Van Dam said.
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With drought affecting many areas of Indonesia as a mild El Nino weather pattern disrupts rainfall, the worry in vulnerable parts of Southeast Asia is that this year's haze will exceed that caused by the devastating fires in 22002.
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Due largely to an unusual weather pattern across the North Atlantic, Tropical Storm Florence is increasingly likely to threaten the East Coast of the U.S. sometime next week, possibly as a major hurricane of Category 3 intensity or greater.
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Monsoon rains in India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice and sugar, could be lighter than average this year in the absence of the La Nina weather pattern, two senior officials at the state-run weather department said.
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La Nina could slow temperatures, eventually Within the past week, the United State government's Climate Prediction Center said there was a 55% to 60% chance of a La Nina weather pattern developing in the second half of the year.
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In a weather pattern that has ties to the record strong El Niño in the tropical Pacific, the U.S. is now under assault from two intense atmospheric rivers, with more to come during the next one to two weeks.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday that it estimated that a La Nina weather pattern has emerged and that there was a 60 percent possibility that the phenomenon would last through the winter months December to February.
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The principal impacts of El Niño (and its opposite weather pattern La Niña) are felt in Southeast Asia, Australia and South America, where it can have a major effect on temperatures and rainfall, with a big effect on agriculture.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Severe floods are expected on China's Yangtze River this year due to a strong El Nino weather pattern, state media said, raising the risk of deaths and damage to property and crops along the country's longest waterway.
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There is a 50 percent chance that a La Niña would emerge in the autumn or winter in Northern Hemisphere, while there is the same possibility of a normal weather pattern, the Japan Meteorological Agency said in a statement.
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Tuesday's cascade of rain and snow marked the fourth round of extreme precipitation unleashed during the past month by a weather pattern meteorologists call an "atmospheric river" - a dense plume of moisture flowing from the tropical Pacific into California.
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"We're going to see more and more of these weather pattern events, whether they're hurricanes or cyclones," said Paul Bayly, the chief executive of the Recovery and Development Agency, which was created to oversee the territory's long-term reconstruction.
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"I want to emphasize the uniqueness of the pattern potential in the central U.S.," said the NWS' Uccellini, referring to the overall weather pattern and its likelihood of producing rainfall totals in excess of 10 to 15 inches over several days.
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The most recent El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought across the region, the U.N. food agency said on Thursday, asking for $730 million over the next 12 months for relief in seven southern African countries, including Mozambique.
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Details: According to Amy Butler, a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, the weather pattern is transitioning to one resembling past years that were influenced by stratospheric warming events that also disrupted the polar vortex.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Almost 16 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and that number could climb to almost 50 million, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
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Some weather models predict a small increase in rainfall for the Sahel, but there is a risk that the entire weather pattern will change by the end of the century, researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said.
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The government estimated a 218.8 percent year-on-year rise in production last year, shrugging off a crop-damaging dryness linked to the El Nino weather pattern that prompted the region's leading exporter, Thailand, to slash its rice output forecast.
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Another official at the weather bureau said there was a 50 percent chance of a La Nina weather pattern affecting Indonesia in the fourth quarter of this year, potentially causing a wetter than usual "dry" season and heavier rainy season.
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Southern Africa, where Tongaat has its mills, is recovering from a severe drought that has cut production of crops ranging from maize to sugar, with the El Nino weather pattern, which faded in May 2016, forecast to reform again around September.
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The Southern African nation of 13 million people said early this month it planned to import up to 700,000 tonnes of the staple maize this year to avert hunger as the El Nino weather pattern brings poor rains and affects crops.
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The streak of record highs could end — for a while at least — if a weather pattern known as La Niña, in which sea surface temperatures fall below normal, takes hold soon, but Mr. Schmidt said it's not clear that will materialize.
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While Climatune is tuned to your specific location, if you want to switch the weather to listen to snow even though it's raining where you are, you can select a different weather pattern and another city's playlist will come up.
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The current weather pattern pretty much ensures that U.S. corn farmers in the core Midwestern production states will not get an early start to planting this year and in fact, they may start late relative to the last couple of years.
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Improvements in the state's financial health and a weather pattern that is helping to ease four years of catastrophic drought put California on a stronger footing as Brown addressed the legislature for his 14th State of the State address on Thursday.
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"The flooding and tornadoes are loosely related in that the same overall weather pattern led to both," Bill Bunting, the chief of forecast operations for the Storm Prediction Center at the National Weather Service, said in an email on Sunday.
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The driest June in five years and a below-average July stoked fears of a drought, but rains picked up in August and September as both the El Nino weather pattern and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) phenomenon turned favourable.
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The sweltering conditions are being caused by a wall of hot air moving in from the Sahara Desert as relief-bringing cool air simultaneously skirts Europe due to high and low pressure systems—a weather pattern known as a "rex block," Earther explains.
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Interestingly, the weather pattern across the North Atlantic is having broader repercussions as well, with a series of freak warmups occurring in the Arctic, largely as a result of heat and moisture transported from the Atlantic side of the typically frozen region.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The winter forecast for drought-hit South Africa has become increasingly uncertain as an El Nino weather pattern persists but chances remain for above-average winter rainfall for most of the country, the South African Weather Service said on Friday.
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Because soils are so saturated in the central states, flooding will be a major concern with this weather pattern, which will feature a collision between late winter-like cold in the Rockies and Mountain West and sizzling mid-summer weather in the Southeast.
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Because summer storms have been so localized, the two leading weather models used by traders may be little help in gauging whether this summer's hit-or-miss weather pattern may cause U.S. corn and soybean yields to end up lower than expected.
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That's because El Nino, the same weather pattern that's plagued retailers this winter, is expected to create cool conditions across the southern third of the U.S. and California through April, with a mild and stormy start in the northern third of the country.
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The El Nino conditions are the strongest since records collection began in 1951, and resemble a 1998 weather pattern that flooded the river and killed thousands, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing vice minister of water resources, Liu Ning.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Monsoon rains in India are likely to be unaffected by the El Nino weather pattern, which is likely to set in only after the four-month rainy season ends in September, a leading government weather official said on Thursday.
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A noteworthy weather pattern will evolve next week across the lower 48 states, featuring a massive and intense area of high pressure sprawled out across the center of the country, like an annoying partner taking up the entire bed while snoring loudly.
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During the course of the next 10 days or more, the weather pattern across the Northern Hemisphere will feature an undulating, wavy jet stream that will be stuck in place, with storms backed up like cars on an interstate highway at rush hour.
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At least 24 tornado reports were recorded with more than 265 high wind reports and more than 255 hail reports, and while this wouldn't be a strange occurrence for a weather pattern in March or April, it happened at the end of February.
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Although the overall trend for the next six weeks is not overwhelmingly cold, warmth is not expected to dominate as it did in December, owing partially to an upcoming shift in the general global weather pattern away from El Nino-like conditions.
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Rains have returned to parts of South Africa, giving some relief after a severe dry spell triggered by an El Nino weather pattern, but the national weather service said in late October that much of the country remained firmly in drought conditions.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is expected to receive below average monsoon in June but rains are likely to pick up in August and September as the El Nino weather pattern is likely to fade by then, a senior weather official said on Friday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday the El Nino weather pattern, which is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, was expected to continue weakening and that there was a high possibility the weather would return to normal by summer.
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El Nino is dead, favoring tropical development El Niño, a weather pattern that might have influenced this year's hurricane season, has dissipated completely and transitioned into a neutral stage, where sea surface temperatures are normal in the equatorial Pacific, NOAA declared Thursday.
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Crop production has fallen up to 90 percent in some regions and failed completely in the country's east, a consequence of an El Nino weather pattern that has caused significant declines in rain in some parts of the world and floods in others.
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SINGAPORE, May 13 (Reuters) - Singapore-listed palm oil company Golden Agri-Resources Ltd posted a 65 percent rise in quarterly core net profit, helped by strong results at its palm and lauric business, but warned the El Niño weather pattern would hurt production.
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WASHINGTON — The climate-warming influence of greenhouse gas emissions rose more quickly last year than it has in nearly three decades, an increase scientists attributed in part to a strong El Niño weather pattern, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported this week.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil production in April likely climbed nearly 9 percent to its highest in six months, according to a Reuters poll of planters, traders and analysts, though below levels before the dry El Nino weather pattern disrupted output in 2016.
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These waves, known to meteorologists as ridges and troughs, get carried downstream like ripples in a pond, affecting weather in Alaska and the continental U.S. What this means is that the weather pattern across the U.S. next week will probably feature a wavy jet stream.
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Most experts said it was too early to evaluate the full impact on the crop, but at least 800,000 to 900,000 hectares of planted soybeans will go unharvested this year due to the heavy rains tied to the strongest El Niño weather pattern in decades.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will receive normal rainfall over the 2016 monsoon season, not surplus as previously expected, with the chances of a La Nina weather pattern emerging over the period seen as unlikely, three senior officials at state-run weather department said.
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This year will be the hottest on record and 2016 could be even hotter due to the El Niño weather pattern, the World Meteorological Organization The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2,000 kms (1,200 miles) along Australia's northeast coast and is the world's largest living ecosystem.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency said the water surface temperature in the tropical Indian Ocean has been at high levels, but that it sees no signs of an El Nino or La Nina weather pattern now, and that temperatures will likely fall toward the northern autumn.
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The prolonged warm weather pattern known as El Niño has been wreaking havoc on crops in the region and the UN's food relief program said in a press release that it has become "increasingly concerned" about the food security of an estimated 14 million people.
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Argentina's soybean harvest will soon wrap, and the market's focus should eventually turn away from South America and toward the United States, where a potentially volatile summer weather pattern could keep pumping the juice into the soybean complex for at least a little while longer.
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MUMBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Monsoon rains in India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice and sugar, could fall below average this year, in the absence of the La Nina weather pattern, two senior officials at the state-run weather department said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - There is a 75-80 percent chance of a weak El Nino weather pattern forming by February and a slightly lower likelihood that it will continue through the northern hemisphere winter of 2018-19, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An El Nino weather pattern which has triggered historic drought in South Africa remains on track to keep conditions hot and dry for the rest of the summer over most of the country including the maize belt, the country's weather service said on Friday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday it sees a 40 percent chance that the El Nino weather pattern would emerge between spring and summer, but there is a higher chance that the current normal pattern without either an El Nino or La Nina will continue.
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Chinese officials had warned of the potential for record floods this year due to a strong El Nino weather pattern, which warms sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific and has been linked to serious crop damage, forest fires and flash flood and drought around the world.
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Studies have shown that when powerful typhoons recurve away from Japan, into the North Central Pacific, they can energize the highway of swiftly flowing winds at high altitudes, popularly known as the jet stream, and lead to a more active weather pattern thousands of miles downstream.
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Hedge funds have been bearish on gas since the end of 2014 as drillers, especially shale drillers, continue to pull near record amounts of gas out of the ground and consumers use less gas for heating due to the warming effect of the El Nino weather pattern.
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GENEVA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - There is a 75-80 percent chance of a weak El Nino weather pattern forming by February and slightly lower odds that it will continue through the northern hemisphere winter of 2018/19, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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The worst El Nino weather pattern in years has exacerbated the crisis, bringing a new season of drought across southern Africa and fresh hardship to Madagascar, a country that sometimes seems to face no end of plagues, from cyclones, floods and locust infestations to political unrest.
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"We have continued hot and dry conditions for spring wheat, particularly Montana and North and South Dakota — and the weather pattern is not changing," said Brian Hoops, president and senior market analyst at Midwest Market Solutions, a commodity trading and marketing firm based in Springfield, Missouri.
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But basically: The jet stream (the river of airflow that directs weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere) has been in position to energize and direct storms to the northeastern US. And there's a weather pattern over Greenland that's preventing these storms from simply moving out to sea.
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Since last Friday, Europe has been locked in a Siberian weather pattern that has pummeled the Continent with snow, freezing rain and brutal wind chills, paralyzing cities unaccustomed to more than a thin wet film of snow and killing dozens of people, mainly older and homeless people.
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"We are O.K." The hurricane center said early on Friday that Irma was more than 800 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, and was expected to move west over the next few days — a typical weather pattern of storms in tradewinds off the coast of Africa.
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Indonesia and neighboring countries in Southeast Asia are regularly hit by smoke from slash-and-burn clearances of forests for farms and palm oil plantations, but conditions this year have been the worst since 2015 due to an El Nino weather pattern causing an extended dry spell.
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This year's relatively warm winter has been attributed by many scientists to a particularly strong El Niño weather pattern, which has presented an unusual, almost comical, challenge for some producers such as Mike Bennett, whose maple operation is based in Ellenburg, N.Y., a short distance from the Canadian border.
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So it's up to newsrooms to start treating coverage of disinformation and malign manipulation of information online like they would a stormy weather pattern, with in-house teams that can identify, collect and analyze in real-time what might be manipulated information or propaganda, including more sophisticated digital "deepfakes" and falsifications.
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Threat level: Meteorologists are confident that the weather pattern across the continental U.S. will tee up multiple hazards nationwide, particularly on Friday and Friday night, when the first round of severe thunderstorms erupt across the Plains, and again from Sunday night through Tuesday, when an unusually powerful storm may erupt in Kansas.
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Traders say the market is not focused on the predicted change in the weather pattern, particularly since the shift to a La Nina, which leads to a cooling of Pacific Ocean temperatures that may bring hot and dry weather to key U.S. growing areas, may even happen too late to affect crop development.
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Still, the bet, based on the El Nino weather pattern, is straightforward: the price of the key chocolate ingredient will rise as extremely dry weather in Ivory Coast, the world's top grower, roils crops, while the warmer-than-average U.S. winter will lead to a bumper build in inventory and lower natgas prices.
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Experts told Axios that what's happening now — with a major winter storm about to cross the country from west to east, dumping 1–2 feet of snow in the Northeast and opening the gates to Arctic air behind it — is indicative of a weather pattern triggered by the stratospheric warming event and polar vortex split.
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London last month was put on a "very high" pollution alert for the first time ever, as cold air and a stationary weather pattern failed to clear the toxic air caused by diesel traffic, as well as by the high use of open fires, which contribute to about 269 percent of pollutants in winter months.
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The U.S. has been hammered by an onslaught of severe weather, as a persistent weather pattern set up a clash of seasons across the central U.S. The state of play: Epic flooding has also been affecting the Upper Midwest, Plains, central U.S. and Mississippi River Valley this spring, with many locations seeing their highest water levels on record.
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The NSIDC provided a more zoomed-in view of January's prevailing weather pattern across the Arctic, stating in a press release there was higher than average air pressure located from north central Siberia into the Barents and Kara sea regions, while lower than average air pressure dominated across the northern North Atlantic and northern North Pacific.
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Since we are still 10 days out, it's still too early to make a definitive call on rain or give detailed predictions about the timing of any potential showers -- but we can look at the long-range weather models and get an idea of what the general weather pattern will be while the world's eyes are on England.
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"From here, we feel that we will have a lot of volatility in the weather pattern, with some warming seen as we move into December (a big reason prices fell so much this week), but there will be more cold threats either late in December, or into the middle portion of winter," he said to CNBC.
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Second, while the large-scale weather pattern will be primed for a big East Coast snowstorm, with a blocking high pressure area over Greenland, a negative phase of a cycle known as the Arctic Oscillation, and a deep dip in the jet stream from Canada southward to the Gulf of Mexico, it's unclear if any formidable storm will materialize.
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The weather maps for the next 9203 days look more like mid-to-late August than late October and early November, with storm systems zipping across Canada, and few, if any, outbreaks of cold air moving southward into the U.S. This unusual weather pattern has implications for the presidential election, since a warmer-than-average, relatively tranquil election day would likely be ideal for maximizing voter turnout.
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The dramatic weather pattern shakeup has ties to a complex series of interactions between a near-record strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean, a series of atmospheric disturbances in the northern Pacific, and one freak storm in the North Atlantic that transported warm, moist air from the tropics to the North Pole, thereby disrupting one of the more famous weather phenomena there is: the polar vortex.
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Typically, some of the biggest East Coast snowstorms have occurred when such blocking is in place, because it prevents storms from moving quickly away from the U.S. Because this is a long-range forecast, there is considerable uncertainty over exactly how the weather pattern will play out during the next two weeks, but it's safe to say this is going to be a time period when there is an elevated chance of extreme outcomes both in the U.S. and Europe.
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