TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) – Japan’s weather bureau said on Friday that conditions were nearing for the El Nino phenomenon to form in the equatorial region of the Pacific, and that there was an 80% chance that it would be seen by the northern hemisphere summer.
El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific.
Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Jacqueline Wong
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