41.   The El Nino weather phenomenon has caused a drought in that part of the world, contributing to the incendiary conditions, officials said.

42.   The El Nino weather phenomenon is at least partially responsible for a nationwide dry spell that has lasted since December.

43.   The president planned Thursday to visit northern California, where the weather phenomenon El Nino spawned devastating floods and mudslides this week.

44.   The weather phenomenon known as El Nino is to blame.

45.   The weather phenomenon tends to warm some of the oceans on the Peruvian coast, driving fish away.

46.   The unpredictable El Nino weather phenomenon caused record droughts in most parts of the country, killing livestock and cutting harvests.

47.   Then, not unlike the dreaded weather phenomenon, the erosion begins and foundations crumble.

48.   Weather scientists hope this is the end of the El Nino weather phenomenon, which has hit Mexico, Central America and other areas particularly hard this year.

49.   Yet what we are witnessing is more powerful than a mere weather phenomenon.

50.   Papua New Guinea, a former territory of Australia, was also badly hit by the drought, which meteorologists blame on the El Nino weather phenomenon.