 
		
				Keeping Watch on El Niño
	Recently, in its monthly update, the Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service announced that there is a 50 percent chance that El Niño conditions will develop during the second half of 2012, and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology also is seeing climate indicators pointing to El Niño. 
		
	

 
             
                 
                 
                 
   
   
  