The 1997/98 El Nino Southern Oscillation February 1998 Press Articles This page last updated   

2/28/98 CNN - Raw sewage taints miles of California beaches; Many stretches are closed

2/28/98 Golfweek - El Nino rains washing away profits; Warm water in the Pacific Ocean disrupts business on, off courses

2/27/98 Mail & Guardian (South Africa) - Nairobi: City in sewage

2/27/98 San Diego Daily Tribune - Emergency Services Chief Tours El Nino Storm Damage In California

2/26/98 Orange County Register - Special Section on worries of new mud slides

2/26/98 CNN - El Niņo clouds Florida's 'sunshine state' image

2/26/98 Washington Post - El Nino Fluctuations May Follow Warm Water Flow

2/26/98 San Francisco Chronicle - Experiments Flying Into El Nino Are Big Success, Scientists Say

2/26/98 San Francisco Chronicle - El Niņo yields weather secrets

2/25/98 Orange County Register - Special Section on mud and mudslides

2/25/98 San Jose Mercury News - Oozing mud a recipe for disaster and death

2/25/98 channel 2000 - Sick Of El Niņo? Try La Niņa

2/25/98 BBC - El Niņo batters both US coasts

2/25/98 Washington Post - At Least 7 Reported Dead As Rain Drenches California; El Nino-Driven Storms Taking Toll on State

2/25/98 ABC - Tales to Warm, Chill the Heart: ABCNEWS.com Users Tell Their El Niņo Stories

2/25/98 CNN - After drought, Philippines braces for floods

2/24/98 Orange County Register - A PACIFIC POUNDING

2/24/98 Orange County Register - Research aircraft plays a major role in predicting size of El Nino storms

2/24/98 San Jose Mercury News - Break in the rain no help to Pacifica homes

2/24/98 CNN - Allergies worse than usual? Blame El Niņo

2/24/98 San Diego Daily Transcript - El Nino-Powered Torrent Brings Tornado, Deaths, Mudslides

2/24/98 San Diego Daily Transcript - Break In The Rain No Help To Threatened Homes In Pacifica

2/24/98 CNN - El Niņo-driven storm turns California into disaster zone

2/24/98 Washington Post - El Nino Was Major Factor In Tornadoes; Effects Have Become Stronger During February

2/24/98 ABC - El Niņo Packs Double Wallop

2/24/98 Channel 2000 - Storm Turns Deadly; At Least 3 Killed

2/24/98 CNN - Wall of mud kills 1 in S. California

2/24/98 Washington Post - Tornadoes, Rain Linked to El Nino

2/23/98 San Jose Mercury News - Flying into the front

2/23/98 San Jose Mercury News - 33 dead, 10 missing in Florida storms

2/23/98 San Jose Mercury News - Strongest rains yet pound sodden California

2/23/98 CNN - CARE announces El Nino relief project in Bolivia

2/23/98 San Diego Daily Transcript - El Nino Floods Streets Of Peru's Capital

2/23/98 San Diego Daily Transcript - 'Big, Big Tornadoes Did This' - 27 Dead In Florida Storms

2/23/98 Channel 2000 - It's Raining Cats, Dogs -- And Trouble

2/23/98 MSNBC - El Niņo’s punch clogs region

2/23/98 USA Today - El Nino triggers sneezing season

2/23/98 USA Today - Storms dampen Florida tourism

2/23/98 San Francisco Gate - Record for wettest season in 100 years up for grabs

2/23/98 Sacramento Bee - UCD to hone weather skills on El Nino

2/23/98 ABC - El Niņo Attacks California

2/23/98 MSNBC - The winter that almost wasn’t

2/23/98 Kansas City Star - Deadly tornadoes hit Florida

2/23/98 Detroit News - El Nino kicks up allergy season

2/23/98 Trib.com - El Nino storminess washing away Golden State's winter tourism business

2/23/98 San Francisco Gate - Food too pricey? Blame El Niņo

2/23/98 Washington Post - Potent El Nino Storm Wallops Calif

2/23/98 Washington Post - River Floods Streets of Lima

2/23/98 Dallas Morning News - Just bringing on the rain

2/23/98 Washington Post - El Nino Jet Streams Give Soggy Weather a Powerful Push

2/23/98 CNN - Rain drenches Southeast; El Niņo returning to West Coast

2/21/98 CNN - A new role for the microwave ... Drying out checks soaked by El Niņo

2/21/98 Washington Post - El Nino Dries Up Hawaiian Island

2/21/98 Washington Post - El Nino Storms Devastate Honduras

2/21/98 CNN - El Niņo dries up island of Hawaii

2/21/98 CNN - UN reports intensifying El Nino over Peru

2/20/98 Christian Science Monitor - Strange Days: Life With El Niņo

2/20/98 Washington Post - Wet Weekend Ahead for N. Calif

2/20/98 Space Online - El Niņo warm water pool is thinning

2/20/98 USA Today - El Niņo smiles on Tahoe skiers

2/19/98 MSNBC - El Niņo threatens NW snow pack

2/19/98 CNN - Honduras chicken deaths blamed on El Nino

2/19/98 CNN - El Nino forces sea lions to land on Chile beaches

2/19/98 San Francisco Gate - El Niņo storms back on track

2/19/98 LA Times - Rio Nido Teeters in a Landslide Limbo

2/18/98 Washington Post - Between Storms, California Builds a Rocky Wall

2/17/98 Reuters - Calif. Rain Breaks El Nino Record

2/17/98 Washington Post - New El Nino Storm Sloshes Into Soggy California

2/17/98 CNN - From California to Florida, El Niņo hits again

2/17/98 CNN - More storms arrive in California, ending rare sunshine interlude

2/16/98 CNN - Peru leader's popularity rises with El Nino work

2/16/98 ABC - The Southland Prepares For the Next El Nino Driven Storm

2/16/98 Mail&Guardian (South Africa) - El Niņo unleashes floods, plagues

2/16/98 MSNBC - El Niņo drenches region anew

2/16/98 Time Magazine - The Fury Of El Nino

2/15/98 LA Times - Hold the anchovies

2/15/98 MSNBC - What’s ahead for El Niņo?  Forecasters are predicting a cold front in next few months

2/15/98 CNN - Sea lion pups struggle against El Niņo's wrath

2/15/98 CNN - Malaysia tells Indonesia to put out new fires

2/14/98 CNN - El Niņo brings flamingos back to lake in Kenya

2/13/98 Washington Post - El Nino to Last Through April, Forecasters Predict

2/13/98 CNN - Computer models were right about El Niņo

2/13/98 Yahoo/Reuters - Firemen on standby during hot spell

2/13/98 Yahoo/Reuters - Respite from hot dry weather soon

2/13/98 USA Today - Insurance won't cover mudslide damage

2/13/98 Trib.com - Mudslides the next El Nino threat in California

2/12/98 CNN - El Niņo to continue wreaking havoc into summer

2/12/98 USA Today - El Niņo will continue into summer

2/12/98 MSNBC - El Niņo expected to linger in U.S.

2/12/98 ABC - El Niņo Sticking Around - Forecast Through Early Summer

2/11/98 MSNBC - El Niņo batters northern Peru

2/11/98 Reuters - Peru's El Nino Death Toll Up, Many Homeless

2/11/98 CNN - Peru's Nino death toll rises, thousands homeless

2/10/98 LA Times - Floods Mean Death in Tijuana

2/10/98 CNN - Massive flooding hammers beleaguered Peru, Ecuador 50 cents for piggyback rides to higher ground

2/9/98 LA Times - 13 Dead in Mexico as Storms Roll South

2/9/98 CNN - Mexico rains kill 13, disaster area declared

2/9/98 CNN - El Nino effect suspected in China whale beachings

2/9/98 CNN - El Niņo rings drought to Colombia

2/9/98 Reuters - Clinton Declares Storm Disaster in California

2/9/98 ABC - El Niņo Pulls Punch - But More Storms on the Way

2/9/98 ABC - Did El Niņo Beach Whales?

2/9/98 Reuters - California Braces for Another El Nino Storm

2/8/98 Sun Herald - El Nino can dampen gardening

2/7/98 CNN - Peru's Fujimori defends his fight against El Nino

2/7/98 MSNBC - California prepares for more storms

2/7/98 CNN - California residents brace for more rain

2/6/98 ABC - Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

2/5/98 CNN - Hard-hit states brace for another weather wallop

2/5/98 ABC - Winter Weather Won’t Let Up

2/4/98 Irish Times - El Nino effect to peak in coming weeks

2/4/98 LA Times - 2 Bruising Storms Cause Evacuations, 1 Death

2/4/98 CNN - What a winter: El Niņo's double-whammy

2/4/98 ABC - Water, Water, Everywhere

2/4/98 CNN - El Niņo sparks flamingos' return to Kenya lake

2/4/98 Sacramento Bee - North state ravaged by huge storm: Region hit by power outages, flooding, highway closures

2/4/98 CNN - El Niņo predictions on target -- so far

2/4/98 Washington Post - El Niņo Storms Slam U.S. Coasts

2/3/98 BBC - El Niņo to slow economic growth

2/3/98 CNN - Floods to raise Tanzania inflation further -c.bank

2/3/98 MSNBC - El Niņo storm shocks Southland

2/3/98 MSNBC - El Niņo-powered rainstorm drenches San Diego

2/3/98 MSNBC - El Nino arrives on Central Coast

2/3/98 MSNBC - Haze again covers parts of Indonesia; Borneo hit hardest; visibility reduced to about 300 yards

2/3/98 CNN - Storms slam California, Southeast

2/3/98 CNN - Fierce storms batter Southeast, West Coast

2/3/98 Reuters - Rain and Wind Pound California, Florida

2/2/98 The Press (New Zealnad) - Five-month spell driest in a century

2/2/98 CNN - Fever spreads in El Niņo's path, killing 14 in Peru

2/2/98 ABC - El Nino Delivers More Rain, Heavy Winds & High Surf

2/2/98 BBC - El Nino encourages mosquitoes in South America

2/2/98 Philadelphia Daily News - Some urge El Nino: Cool it

2/1/98 CNN - New York is having a ball without the snow

2/1/98 San Francisco Chronicle -  Rain got you down?  El Niņo has Californians bumming out.

2/1/98 San Jose Mercury News - El Nino still lurking in the Pacific

2/1/98 CNNSI - Blame it on El Niņo.  Soggy Pebble Beach Pro-Am suspended until Monday

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