Reply #5: The last sentence of the part that was excerpted stated

[JDPriestly]

that La Nina does not have much effect in the U.S. That is not true. It strongly affects Southern California.

"La Niña conditions typically cause cool and wet conditions over the Caribbean in summer, but do not have much of an impact on U.S. temperatures or precipitation."

The weather patterns that El Nino and La Nina produce do not just affect the eastern part of the U.S. And, just for the record, we here in California are a part of the U.S. so when an article talks about effects in the U.S., it necessarily deals with effects in Southern Califoria. If the article had stuck to the Caribbean, I would not have commented.

It's not that I'm off topic. It's that you are defining the topic very narrowly. The article makes a broad statement about the U.S. It didn't have to.



We here in Southern California feel the differences more strongly than just about anywhere else.