Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This El Nino may be the most studied weather phenomenon of all time. For months, and in some cases years, meteorologists have been poring over weather maps, running supercomputer simulations, studying coral reefs, tree rings and glacial ice--all to try to understand the dynamics of a pool of warm water in the Pacific...
...fact, this El Nino has showcased the progress climatologists have made over the past 15 years in understanding the earth's climate machine and the forces that drive it. In 1997, as soon as climate modelers spotted the area of warm water forming in the Pacific, they launched a coordinated effort to predict its effects on various regions of the world. Organized by the new International Research Institute for Climate Prediction--a joint venture of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA--these efforts have, in the main, been on target...
...warm water created by the south-moving ripples created a heat wave that sent residents of Santiago flocking to nearby beaches in the middle of winter, while the north-moving waves triggered a sharp rise in ocean temperatures off California and Washington State, delighting sportfishermen by attracting tropical species like marlin to usually frigid waters...
...bouquet money says that State of the Union (1948) is just the thing to warm the voters' cockles on this schizophrenic weekend. No one does a Washington fable better than Capra, and no one flings woo like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy plays a self-made man who, when lured into an idealistic run for the presidency, makes a stop at the vipers' nest. Along the way, he tracks down his soul, ditches chippie Angela Lansbury and falls back in love with wife Kate, who shimmers here with inside-and-out loveliness. Yes, this one outwags...
...what of the man who may be the world's best freestylist? In the warm confines of Mount Baker's lodge, Terje Haakonsen steps onto a makeshift podium as the Golden Duct Tape is hung around his neck to the cheers of a couple hundred soaking patrons. A crackling stereo plays the Norwegian national anthem. Haakonsen grasps his plastic bag of award loot--gift certificates, lift tickets, stickers and assorted boarding goodies--and hurls it into the writhing mass of teenagers. It isn't Olympic, but it is the golden moment he feels snowboarding is all about...