Record-strength El Niño likely to bring wet winter to California in midst of worst drought on record

From the Weather West California Blog The big picture: trends in the tropical Pacific Ocean The tropical Pacific has taken a decidedly circuitous path over the past several years toward its present extraordinary warmth. Until 2014, persistent and increasingly anomalous warmth in the tropical West Pacific Ocean (near Indonesia) had been in place for the better part of two decades—not coincidentally since the last big El Niño event in 1997-1998. Read this entire write up from Weather West at this page http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/3405
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