"La Nina seemed to treat Louisiana and the rest of the Southeast United States like a punching bag. Its three-year barrage of body blows has come to an end, but left behind a lot of scars from hurricanes and tornadoes among other weather disasters.
Experts caution that attributing any single event to La Nina or its better-known cousin, El Nino, is difficult as they pronounced Thursday that the La Nina weather phenomenon has come to an end. But they can say generally that tornadoes in the Southeast and hurricanes are more frequent during La Nina.
Here are some examples of the 44 different billion-dollar extremes of nasty weather during La Nina’s reign... ."
Seth Borenstein reports for the Associated Press March 10, 2023.
Source: AP, 03/10/2023
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