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Is an El Nino event welling up on the horizon?
13th May 2015
In a complex interaction of atmosphere, ocean currents and climate impacts, Australian meteorologists are indicating they're seeing the first signs of an El Nino event beginning to develop to impact later this year. In a variable cycle of 2-7 years the Pacific Ocean's pattern of warm and cold currents switches from the usual East to West, to the reverse direction affecting subsequent weather within and around the entire Pacific, and maybe even globally.
Andy Day
Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years at two schools in East Yorkshire as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the humanities specialism. He has written extensively about teaching and geography - with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld and Teaching Geography.