El Niño become infamous when it killed an estimated 23,000 people and caused tens of billions of dollars worth of damage in 1997 and 1998 – and according to scientists, we could experience another El Niño of that magnitude this year. The NOAA Climate Prediction Center recently posted a bulletin stating there’s over a 50 percent chance that El Niño will develop later this year. Australian government meteorologists expressed higher odds, stating that there’s over a 70% chance the weather pattern will develop this summer.
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