NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — El Niño is still driving the weather, and it’s keeping a heavy hand on the wheel.
While El Niño isn’t responsible for Arkansas’ intensifying drought, it may bring the state some relief.
This year’s El Niño is classified as “‘very strong,’ which is the highest category of these phenomena, the others being ‘weak,’ ‘moderate,’ and ‘strong,’” said Christopher Buonanno, science and operations officer for the National Weather Service at Little Rock…