The El Nino winter of '97-'98 El Nino winter of 1997-1998

"The winter of 1997-1998 was marked by a record breaking El Nino event and unusual extremes in parts of the country. Overall, the winter (December 1997- February 1998) was the second warmest and seventh wettest since 1895. Severe weather events included flooding in the southeast, an ice storm in the northeast, flooding in California, and tornadoes in Florida. The winter was dominated by an El Nino-influenced weather pattern, with wetter than normal conditions across much of the southern third of the country and warmer than normal conditions across much of the northern two-thirds of the country"--Introduction. Tom Ross, Neal Lott, Sam McCown, Duncan Quinn. "April 1998." 1998 NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) Library Public Domain 2286