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El Nino.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: I quite liked Geoffrey Luck's piece "Keeping a Weather Eye Open" (April 2008). It's just a pity that some of his statements were not better researched.
El Nino does indeed bring drier than average conditions to Eastern Australia but in the Eastern Pacific it interrupts the cold, nutrient-rich upwellings that provide for "bumper ...
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