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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

For some reason that scientists cannot quite explain, tradewinds in the Pacific that normally blow west toward Indonesia and Australia, fade, stop or reverse themselves completely. This causes ocean currents of warm water to flow east toward South America. This is how El Niño begins.

El Niño: A Primer
ocregister.com (Orange County, Calif.)

Graphic: An El Niño year vs. a normal year
Access Atlanta

The most destructive yet?
washingontpost.com

Clues in the clamshells
SunOne (Gainsville, Fla.)

Graphic: The making of El Niño
washingtonpost.com

Animation: 1997 compared to other El Niño years
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Animation: The latest surface sea temperature data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

More images of El Niño
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center