'It's too big to fail': Powerful El Niño expected to bring record wet winter to the West Coast

There's an over 60% possibility that Southern California will have a wet winter, and an over 40% possibility that San Francisco will have one. Winds changing direction along the equator and rising sea-level ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are causing El Niño to be more powerful, El Niño is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that occurs every few years
Californians may need to stock up on umbrellas this winter, due to this year's El Niño. Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Los Angeles Times: 'There's no longer a possibility that El Niño wimps out at this point. 'It's too big to fail.' The newspaper wrote that 'rising sea-level ocean temperatures in the Pacific' along with 'a change of directions of the wind along the equator' are causing El Niño to be more powerful.