The status of whether the world is being impacted by an El Nino or a La Nina is determined by water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. (NOAA)
As the calendar turns to 2025, weather watchers will be keeping an eye out for droughts, flooding, severe weather, hurricanes, fires and heat waves that plague the nation every year.

Annually, nearly 2 dozen of these events become billion-dollar disasters,

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