El Nino Has Arrived!


	El Nino Has Arrived!

chestnut501

7-11-2009 5:02 AM

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news, science, weather, el-nino, noaa, pacific-ocean, rain, drought, hurricaines

chestnut501 says:

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration officially announced that we will experience the El Nino phenomenon this year through to 2010

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