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El Niño is underway and is likely to affect China's weather during the flood season this year, according to Jiang Hua, chief forecaster at China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center.
After three years of the cooling La Niña weather pattern, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that El Niño is now underway and has a 90 percent probability of continuing until the end of the year at moderate strength or higher.
"This year is a turning point between the decline of La Niña and the development of El Niño, and historically, the weather has tended to be abnormal during such transitional years," said Jiang.