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Ned Gardiner discusses how spring storm tracks across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea swept away a high pressure system that had been fostering increasingly dry conditions over the Horn of Africa in early 2011.
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Ned Gardiner discusses how spring storm tracks across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea swept away a high pressure system that had been fostering increasingly dry conditions over the Horn of Africa in early 2011.
Video produced by the Climate.gov team in cooperation with climate and Earth scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies and institutions. Any opinions voiced by people in these videos are their own; they are not official NOAA statements or opinions. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Climate.gov video productions can be freely republished or re-purposed by others.










