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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center: La Niña is Back

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2011.

Dry lake bed.

Dry lake bed.(Credit: NOAA) 

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La Niña, which contributed to extreme weather around the globe during the first half of 2011, has re-emerged in the tropical Pacific Ocean and is forecast to gradually strengthen and continue into winter. Today, forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center upgraded last month’s La Niña Watch to a La Niña Advisory.

NOAA will issue its official winter outlook in mid-October, but La Niña winters often…

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