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Science and Nature

El Niño and Why We Can't Predict the Weather

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

El Niño and Why We Can't Predict the Weather

Season 3 Episode 49 | 6m 16s

What is El Niño? Why can’t we predict the weather? Just a few slight changes in global climate patterns can drastically shift the weather. Thanks to chaos theory, even our smartest meteorologists can’t predict weather correctly.

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