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Why does the cycle of El Niño affect the weather across the Pacific Ocean?

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By changing the distribution of heat and wind across the Pacific, El Niño alters rainfall patterns for months to seasons. As the warm ocean surface warms the atmosphere above it, moisture-rich air rises and develops into rain clouds.

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