El Niño’s coming.

That’s the increasingly confident forecast from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center. In its latest monthly report, the CPC continued an El Niño watch and boosted the odds of it developing during the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2018-2019 to 70 percent. Last month, the center pegged El Niño’s chances at 65 percent.

This is important because El Niño has profound impacts on weather around the world.

Here in the United States, El Niño tends to result in an amplifie