El Niño and Why It's So Hard To Predict the Weather

Why is the weatherperson wrong?
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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.

Cool demonstration of the Butterfly Effect: http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/java/lorenz.html

2:20 El Niño graph by Jan Null: http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm
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