This year's El Niño looks a lot like 1997. What happened in Florida?
Climate scientists note that current atmospheric conditions resemble those of 1997, a year marked by one of the strongest El Niño events on record.
Columbia University climate scientist Azhar Ehsan said in a September media briefing that this year's atmospheric evolution looks similar to that of 1997, when one of the strongest-ever El Niños formed.
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