This year's El Niño looks a lot like 1997. What happened then?

Climate scientists note that current atmospheric conditions resemble those of 1997, which saw 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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