NASA and its European partners are tracking a major buildup of warm water in the Pacific Ocean that could signal the arrival of El Niño later this year.
Data collected by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite shows a broad area of unusually warm water, stretching hundreds of miles across, has reached the waters off South America. Because water expands as it warms, rising sea levels in a specific region of the ocean can reveal where temperatures are increas...

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