FILE PHOTO : A farmer works on a drought-hit paddy field on the outskirts of Chongqing municipality
The chances of El Niño forming and continuing through the northern hemisphere spring 2019 were at about 65 percent, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
"However, given the timing and that a weak event is favored, significant global impacts are not anticipated during the remainder of winter, even if conditions were to form," the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction
Center (CPC) added in its monthly forecast. (Reporting by Eileen Soreng in Bengaluru Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
