Japan weather bureau says 40% chance of El Nino continuing into end of spring

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s weather bureau said on Thursday that there was a 40% chance that the El Nino phenomenon would continue into the end of the Northern Hemisphere spring.

The El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific.

(Reporting by Mariko Katsumura; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)