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Warm Pacific waters start to rise, Shifting storms across the global skies.
diego While the Americas flood, Australia, Indonesia, and parts of Asia experience severe drought and wildfires.
diego El Niño brings torrential rains and severe flooding to the western coastlines of North and South America.
diego Connect global weather events to discover how El Niño ripples across the planet.
Desert blooms: In Peru's Sechura Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, El Niño rains once created a temporary 2,000-square-mile lake.
A causal relationship between meteorological or climate anomalies in widely separated regions of the Earth. During the 1997 El Niño, these atmospheric links triggered catastrophic floods in Peru and droughts in Indonesia.
Which region typically experiences severe droughts and wildfires during an El Niño year?
What unusual geographic feature appeared in the dry Sechura Desert of Peru during the 1998 El Niño?
During the 1997-1998 El Niño, which US state suffered from double its average rainfall and severe mudslides?