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Thirty-year average periods that NOAA is using to calculate the strength of historic El Niño and La Niña events. Climate.gov figure from ERSSTv5 data, based on CPC original.
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Thirty-year average periods that NOAA is using to calculate the strength of historic El Niño and La Niña events. Climate.gov figure from ERSSTv5 data, based on CPC original.