Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps your weather is unusually sunny and warm. Or maybe the cloud hanging over your head is derived from a massive storm system that is dumping unusually large amounts of rain or snow on your region. Whatever the case," notes the CNN Interactive weather website, "you can likely blame El Ni?...
...Perhaps your weather is unusually sunny and warm. Or maybe the cloud hanging over your head is derived from a massive storm system that is dumping unusually large amounts of rain or snow on your region. Whatever the case," notes the CNN Interactive weather website, "you can likely blame El Ni?...
...first week of January. That might sound like the opposite of a disaster, but every weather anomaly has its dark side. In a normal year, for example, the winter storm that hit New England and southern Canada in January might have dumped a thick blanket of snow on the region. Instead rain fell on low-lying arctic air and glazed everything in sight with thick layers of ice, knocking out power to 4 million people in one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history...
...next. Recently, for example, Ed Cook of Lamont-Doherty and Julie Cole of the University of Colorado used tree rings from hundreds of sites to see how El Nino affected North America in the past. Before 1920, they found, El Nino appears to have affected a much larger region of the U.S. than it does today, channeling winter rain and snow all the way up into the Great Lakes and Great Plains. Afterward, however, its sphere of influence retreated to northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Why the shift? It may be, Cole suggests, that El Nino is overlaid...
...addition, the brothers thought it might be nice to play in the Rolex doubles draw as well, so they also won that portion of the region...