UN weather agency predicts rare ‘triple-dip’ La Nina in 2022

FILE - People paddle through a flooded street at Windsor on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, July 5, 2022. The U.N. weather agency is predicting the phenomenon known as La Nina is poised to last through the end of this year, a mysterious “triple dip” — the first this century — caused by three straight years of its effect on climate patterns like drought and flooding worldwide. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)