David Swain, a climate scientist at Stanford University, told the Los Angeles Times, ““It does look like it’s possible that there’s still additional warming” to come.
On the other hand, accruing to the Los Angeles Times, the deputy director of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, Mike Halpert, noted that the current El Niño has not yet had the impacts one might expect on the atmosphere and cautioned against reading too much into a single week’s high temperatures when predicting winter climates.
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