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La Niña, the large area of cold water in the Pacific Ocean widely blamed for last summer's drought and often related to an increase in the number of hurricanes that make landfall, appears to be on its last legs.
Image and animation by Greg Shirah, NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio
Published May 10, 2000