El Niño Watch Issued by National Weather Service

The National Weather Service has issued an El Niño watch as scientists observe early signs of the climate pattern known to boost global temperatures, predicting it is more likely than not to arrive in the coming months. El Niño is marked by warmer-than-normal surface waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean that have influences on weather patterns around the globe. The warm Pacific waters tend to produce more cloud cover, which encourages more of the sun’s warmth to be trapped in the atmosphere.