Pre-season predictions made in the spring and summer for the 2015 Atlantic Basin hurricane season analyzed cooler-than-normal ocean waters and the strengthening El Nino to generally forecast below-average tropical cyclone activity.
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Stargazers in the United States were treated to breathtaking, and somewhat unusual, sight on the evenings of November 2nd and 3rd. The Northern Lights (also known as the Aurora Borealis) made a grand appearance in many places that often don’t get to see this spectacle light up the night sky.
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Many centuries ago, the Incas of Pacific coastal South America had a keen and immediate awareness of the impacts of a strong El Nino. Evidence suggests they resorted to mass human sacrifices to appease the gods of the Sun and Moon they felt were punishing them with cataclysmic rains and flooding.
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For two years we’ve seen startling pictures out of California of once-robust lakes and rivers reduced to trickles through desiccated landscapes and satellite images showing the Sierra Nevada Mountains almost devoid of snow cover in the heart of the winter.
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