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Article: Monster from the sea: largest El Nino in history causes weather disasters.(includes related information)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- October 17, 1997
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PACIFIC OCEAN--It's worse than Godzilla, more destructive than King Kong, and more murderous than Dracula. Most frightening of all, it's a real-life sea monster that has only begun what is expected to be an enormous path of destruction.
The name of this fearsome creature is El Nino (NEEN-yo). El Nino doesn't look much like a monster. It has no scales, claws, or fangs. In fact, unless you are a trained scientist, you can't even see El Nino. It is a huge area of unnaturally warm water in the Pacific Ocean, now stretching some 7,000 miles from east of the Philippines to the coast of Peru.
El Ninos develop every two to ten years when--for unknown ...