Morocco just snapped a seven-year drought in a single winter, with rain totals unseen in a generation refilling dried-out rivers and reservoirs. Now a record El Niño is brewing in the Pacific, and researchers say a shifted North Atlantic jet stream, not the ocean thousands of miles away, may decide whether the rain keeps coming.

— via The Conversation — Canada, Hossein Bonakdari, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa