'Godzilla' weather pattern may hit California in fall, winter

Cue the screaming, the pointing, the badly synced exclamation: It's Godzilla! The National Weather Service on Thursday said a gathering El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean could become one of the most powerful on record, bringing once-in-a-generation storms later this year to drought-stricken California. Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the system has the possibility of becoming "the Godzilla El Niño."

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