... La Niña, the cousin of better-known El Niño, is the cooling of equatorial waters in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean that can impact atmospheric conditions worldwide. The La Niña climate pattern is currently weak and expected to become moderate in strength in the coming months.
The winter forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration favors drier, hotter weather in the southern part of the United States, and colder, wetter conditions to the north, for December 2020-February 2021, in part due to La Niña....
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