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Understanding the Phenomenon
San Jose Mercury News (Calif.)

Coming Soon, Effects Unknown
San Jose Mercury News (Calif.)

Tracking with better tools than ever
San Jose Mercury News (Calif.)

Coping with nature's wild card
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Special Report: El Niño
Los Angeles Times

El Niño Grande
The Gate (San Francisco)

Government and Other Research Sites

El Niño Loss Reduction Center
Federal Emergency Management Agency

NASA El Niño Site
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The latest El Niño Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Weather World 2010 El Niño page
University of Illinois

Special Report: El Niño
Los Angeles Times



From flooding in California and Mexico, to droughts in Indonesia, the global effects of El Niño are hard to predict, and therefore hard to prepare for.

Parasitic illnesses on the rise
The Gate (San Francisco)

A harsh toll for seal pups
The Gate (San Francisco)

Bay area crab catch in hot water
The Gate (San Francisco)

Warm water drives away fish, leaving seals to starve
Los Angeles Times

Using 1982 as a model, California tries to predict high impact areas
The Gate (San Francisco)

California prepares for possible canyon flooding
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Anchorage likely to face a wet winter
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska)

Texas prepares for rain and possible flooding
Austin 360 (Texas)

Gore sees a connection between El Niño and global warming
Access Atlanta

All is quiet on the Atlantic front
The News & Observer On The Web (Raleigh, N.C.)

Colorado: More snow possible
InsideDenver.com

Calm weather expected in the Inland Northwest
Virtually Northwest (Spokane, Wash.)

A whale of a time: El Niño brings exotic fish to West Coast
The Gate (San Francisco)

Graphic: El Niño's passengers
The Gate (San Francisco)

Some cold-water species face trouble
The Gate (San Francisco)

El Niño's predicted impact around the world
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Satellite images showing global sea temperatures
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Reports on El Niño-related events from around the world
University of California at Irvine