Climate Central: El Nio is gaining steam in the Pacific Ocean and forecasters are now leaning towards it being a strong event, the first since the blockbuster El Nio of 1997-1998. That possibility is again raising the collective hopes of Californians that this winter may finally see some desperately needed precipitation to begin the slow climb out of a historic drought. In California, all eyes are on the Pacific given the ongoing historic drought, Daniel Swain, an atmospheric science Ph.D. student at Stanford...