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Odd Lots: How El Niños Actually Work

Bloomberg Markets Friday 14 August 2026, 17:18 UTC 1 min read
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Aug 14th, 2026 Odd Lots: How El Niños Actually Work Forecasters are predicting record-breaking intensity for this year's emerging El Niño. But how do El Niños actually work? On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Justin Mankin, professor of geography at Dartmouth, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to explain this weather phenomenon, using a space heater as an analogy.

Aug 14th, 2026 Odd Lots: How El Niños Actually Work Forecasters are predicting record-breaking intensity for this year's emerging El Niño. But how do El Niños actually work? On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Justin Mankin, professor of geography at Dartmouth, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to explain this weather phenomenon, using a space heater as an analogy.
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