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Current La Niña Could be Strongest Ever Recorded

OurAmazingPlanet Staff
Date: 13 January 2011 Time: 12:33 PM ET
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The new image from NASA.
CREDIT: NASA JPL/Bill Patzert.

This year's La Niña event, a cyclical cooling of the Pacific Ocean, could be one for the record books, according to new satellite data from NASA.

Satellite images of the Pacific Ocean reveal ((CONLINK|8620|La NiÃ

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