Japan weather bureau says 80% chance El Nino will end in spring

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s weather bureau said on Monday that there was an 80% chance that the El Nino phenomenon would end during the Northern Hemisphere spring.

The bureau also said there was a 40% chance the La Nina weather pattern would occur during the summer.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)