Little El Nio grows stronger in Pacific

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: October 7, 2006| Author: Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER | Copyright information

After spring storms brought water riches in 2006, fortune just might look kindly again on Northern California farmers, cities and ski resorts in 2007.

NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say a weak El Nio is building in the eastern Pacific Ocean, boosting the odds of a slightly wetter winter in California and better skiing from the Sierra to the southern Rockies.

Stretching westward from South America along the equator, a body of Pacific seawater...