Lauren Sommer
speaker
391 appearances
50 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lauren Sommer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That doesn't always produce big weather impacts, but typically it means more rain in the southern U.S.
and drier weather in the northern U.S.
Globally, the hottest years on record have been El Nino years.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
You can think of El Nino as the planet redistributing its heat.
Warm ocean water develops in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which has a big effect on the atmosphere.
Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say an El Nino will likely begin this summer or fall.
And it could be a big one, a super El Nino.
That doesn't always produce big weather impacts, but typically it means more rain in the southern U.S.
and drier weather in the northern U.S.
Globally, the hottest years on record have been El Nino years.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
Temperature records have been set this week across Arizona, California, and Nevada, with the hottest March days ever recorded in some cities.
The National Weather Service has issued heat warnings for millions of people, the earliest in the year these warnings have ever been issued, according to the agency.
Scientists with World Weather Attribution, a research collaborative, analyzed the heat wave.
They found that because of heat-trapping emissions, climate change has made this heat wave four times more likely to happen now than it was a decade ago.
Lauren Sommer, NPR News.
On Wall Street, in pre-market trading, Dow futures are lower.
NPR's Lauren Sommer reports.
As the climate gets hotter, oceans are rising.
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