ENSO - El Niño, Part 1

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El Niño means the little boy in Spanish, or Christ Child when capitalized. Fishermen in the 1600s, off the coast of Peru, called the climate pattern El Niño. Ocean surface water warming that impacted coastal fisheries typically occurred around Christmas.

When meteorologists talk about El Niño they are referencing the large-scale ocean-atmospheric climate interaction linked to sea surface water warming in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific. This warming impacts weather conditions.

El Niño is the warm phase of a much larger phenomenon called the ENSO cycle, or the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

El Niño is the effect on ocean water and impacts the Southern Oscillation which causes changes in the atmosphere.

El Niño usually affects the winter months in North America. Where the continent will have warmer temperatures and more rainfall.

El Niño's effects do take place on a larger global scale. The atmosphere changes in pressure and trade winds along the equator weaken and can sometimes reverse.

With the El Niño contributing to the warm phase of ENSO there is also a cold phase called La Niña.

Next time, we'll discuss more about La Niña. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe to Mr. Weather's World on YouTube for new videos every #MrWeatherWednesday!
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