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Epic drought in California unlikely to ease
2014-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: California will remain in the stranglehold of drought at least until September, even as a climate system in the tropical Pacific Ocean that would have brought rainfall to the parched state appears to be weakening, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's monthly climate update released yesterday. Weather watchers had been hoping that an El Nio, which occurs when an area of the tropical Pacific Ocean warms by at least 0.5 degrees Celsius above normal, would bring moisture...
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