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It's Okay to Be Smart
El Niño and Why We Can't Predict the Weather
Season 3
Episode 49
What is El Niño? Why can’t we predict the weather? Just a few slight changes in global climate patterns can drastically shift the weather. Thanks to chaos theory, even our smartest meteorologists can’t predict weather correctly.
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