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United States: Drought threatens California despite El Nino

2016-04-13 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AFP: Last winter, El Nino-driven storms dumped much-needed snow and rain over California, boosting reservoir levels and fuelling hopes the parched state's four-year drought might end. But despite the brief respite, experts say the record drought is here to stay. The El Nino weather phenomenon -- caused when a rise in the Pacific Ocean's temperature triggers intense precipitation -- has provided only "a band-aid on a gaping wound,' says Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of...

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