El Niño could last for another year

A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday extended its outlook for how long El Niño weather conditions will last, pegging chances they will continue into the Northern Hemisphere’s 2015-16 winter at 85 percent. According to Reuters, the Climate Prediction Center, an agency of the National Weather Service, previously saw a more than 80 percent chance El Niño would last through 2015. Thursday’s monthly report from the CPC was the first to forecast the conditions are likely to last into 2016. Read more at USAgNet…