California Fears El Nino's Dark Side Will Bring More Trouble

  • A winter of both flooding and dryness is one El Nino scenario
  • Weather-changing phenomenon isn't a panacea for long drought

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A group of drought experts gathered in California this week, and it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to El Nino.

They weren’t touting it as the savior that will end the state’s four-year drought. Instead, they were looking at a darker scenario where the weather-changing phenomenon adds another year of dryness in the north while ravaging the south with floods.