El Nino declared as climate scientists watch on with 'amazement'

By Peter Hannam
Updated March 30 2015 - 10:13am, first published March 6 2015 - 3:30pm
Unusual warmth over the Pacific has scientists puzzled Photo: NOAA
Unusual warmth over the Pacific has scientists puzzled Photo: NOAA

Unusual warming of waters in the central equatorial Pacific has prompted the US government to declare an El Nino event and predict a better-than-even chance that it will linger through the middle of the year.

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