The odds of an El Nino weather pattern occurring are changing.

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has cut the odds of El Nino happening to 50 percent while the US Climate Prediction Center has raised the odds of an El Nino to 70 percent during the Northern Hemisphere summer and close to 80 percent during the fall and winter.

State Climatologist at South Dakota State University Dr. Dennis Todey says it’s not unusual for the odds to change depending on who’s giving them and what time of year it is…

 

Todey says the impacts of an El Nino on the northern plains could vary a bit…