El Nino outlook revised

The El Niño forecast has been fluctuating quite a bit, but climatologists are now in pretty serious agreement that an El Niño condition will continue throughout 2015, and that there is a good chance that it will be a relatively strong El Niño this time around. This means that the southern tier of the U.S. will receive some much needed rain over the next several months, while the Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes region and Australia and Indonesia will experience lower…