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What Does El Nio Precipitation Mean Calif Drought?

2016-01-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: It's finally raining in California, but will the El Nio storms be enough to refill the state's reservoirs? Can the water be collected? Alice Walton of the LA Times talks with NPR's Rachel Martin.

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El Nio rains get L.A. River roaring to life

2016-01-07 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: At the end of Wood Avenue in South Gate, unseen behind its levee, the ephemeral giant strained in its cage. The raw power drew Rita Adams for the first time in her 40 years of living in the neighborhood. She and her son walked under bare winter elms, past tidy postwar homes with American flags flapping in the rain, up the sandy embankment of an old Union Pacific track, to the top of the concrete channel. She lit a cigarette and shook her head. "Wow." The Los Angeles River had awakened. ...

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Record hot end 2015 for Australia as giant El Nio dominates

2016-01-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Morning Herald: Australia has posted its hottest end to any year as the impact of one of the biggest El Ninos on record began to be felt across the continent. Mean temperatures were 0.36 degrees above the previous record for the October to December period, capping what was Australia's fifth-hottest year since the Bureau of Meteorology began keeping national figures in 1910. 2015 was another hot year for Australia - and the hottest on record for the world. "For temperatures, it was a year of two halves -...

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El Nio and its impact on climate change, toll on humans

2016-01-05 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBS: Extreme weather continues to hit the United States, as flooding continues to overwhelm the Midwest and an arctic blast is finally chilling the Northeast. California is also preparing for a series of drenching storms. Jeffrey Kluger, editor-at-large for Time magazine and Time.com, joins CBS This Morning" to discuss the wild weather and its impact.

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Study Shows Larger Effect of Clouds on El Nio

2016-01-04 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Clouds help amplify El Nios effect on the atmosphere to a greater degree than once thought, a new study reports. In El Nio conditions, sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean become unusually warm and tall thunderheads, known as cumulonimbus clouds, form over the water. Above them, a layer of colder cirrus clouds also appears. The cirrus clouds trap heat. They act as a blanket and further warm the atmosphere, said Thorsten Mauritsen, a meteorologist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology...

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