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Japan weather bureau sees 100% chance El Nino persists through autumn

TOKYO - Japan's weather bureau said on Friday that the El Nino phenomenon has been observed since spring and that there was a 100% chance it will continue through the Northern Hemisphere autumn.

El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific.

(Reporting by Tokyo Newsroom; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

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This story was originally published July 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM.

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