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Why flooding happens on sunny days: El Niño explained

MELISSA LUNDEN NAILED IT when she explained why El Niño causes flooding without rain. “It doesn’t mean rain, it doesn’t mean floods, it doesn’t mean anything like that,” said Lunden, the Exploratorium’s senior scientist-in-residence. “It means that the water is abnormally warm.” El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which the equatorial zone of […]

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