Word: nino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the coming months, scenes like this are likely to repeat themselves many times over. Thanks to El Nino, still more storms are expected to savage California well into spring. Once the weather improves, debris flows will end. But bedrock landslides won't dissipate until the waterlogged hillsides drain. Long after sparkling sunshine has replaced sullen skies, experts warn, Californians are likely to find their property slip-sliding away...
...grim coincidence, last week was officially Hazardous Weather Awareness Week in Florida. The storms, spawned by El Nino, that raked across the state generated as many as 10 twisters, probably the worst pack of tornadoes ever to hit Florida at one time. Last week's toll is still being calculated, but so far, 39 people are known killed, 250 injured and two missing. Some 1,700 apartments, pre-fab houses and single-family homes were damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimates exceed $65 million. Dozens of Florida counties have been declared disaster areas; President Clinton, touring some of the worst...
...story on El Nino incorrectly stated that Michael Glantz was formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research [SCIENCE, Feb. 16]. Glantz is still with NCAR as a senior scientist...
...interconnected it seems, and the harder it is to unravel. That does nothing to diminish the tremendous advances that have occurred over the past decade. In fact, it is only because they have learned so much that scientists are finally ready to tackle the questions that the current El Nino has so eloquently framed--questions that may still be formidable, but perhaps no longer quite so intractable...
Marilyn and J.F.K. Monica and Bill. Kids were selling star maps on Sunset Boulevard last week. Down on the coast, a seal washed ashore in the storm and took refuge in a public rest room even as Monica was taking refuge from the El Nino of all sex scandals. And a Brentwood News headline read, STAR TREK CAPTAIN TAKES OVER AS MAYOR...