EDITORS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged  BC-CNS-Lingering El Nino that moved Thursday, April 4, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the fourth paragraph of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX  – An April 4 story about this winter’s lingering El Niño misstated the timing of the climatological pattern. Surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator normally begin to rise in the fall, peak in the winter and dissipate by spring, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.