Warmer-Than-Average Fall Weather On Tap For US East, West Coasts As El Niño Conditions Heat Up Pacific Ocean

A warmer-than-average fall season is likely on tap for the eastern and western United States, federal climate scientists say, because of an El Niño system forming out in the Pacific Ocean. In such an event, ocean temperatures steadily rise and that, in turn, heats the air that blasts across the U.S.