Parts of the Pacific Ocean surface temperatures exceeding El Nino thresholds
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Reuters] By Colin Packham - December 22, 2014
SYDNEY, Surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific Ocean have exceeded El Nino thresholds for several weeks and there is a greater than 70 percent chance of the weather pattern emerging, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said earlier this month.
The BOM had projected at least a 70 percent chance of El Nino arriving by February 2015. The weather event occurs every four to 12 years and can trigger drought in some parts of the world while causing flooding in others.
Japan has declared an El Nino, marking the first declaration by a major meteorological bureau of the weather phenomenon.
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