What Exactly Is El Niño?

Have you ever wondered what El Niño is? Trace was curious and decided to do some digging to figure out what exactly it is.

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How El Nino will change the world’s weather in 2014
“The global El Niño weather phenomenon, whose impacts cause global famines, floods – and even wars – now has a 90% chance of striking this year, according to the latest forecast released to the Guardian.”

What Is El Nino?
“Fishermen who ply the waters of the Pacific off the coast of Peru and Ecuador have known for centuries about the El Niño.”

El Nino - and What is the Southern Oscillation Anyway?!
“El Nino, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, is one part of what's called the Southern Oscillation.”

La Nina
“La Niña refers to the extensive cooling of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, often accompanied by warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the western Pacific, and to the north of Australia.”

What is La Nina?
“La Niña is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, compared to El Niño, which is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.”

Impacts of El Nino Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops
“The monitoring and prediction of climate-induced variations in crop yields, production and export prices in major food-producing regions have become important to enable national governments in import-dependent countries to ensure supplies of affordable food for consumers.”

What is El Nino and how does it relate to the unusual situation in the tropical Pacific?
“El Niño is an intermittent disruption of the climate system centered in the equatorial Pacific that has effects on short-term climate around the Pacific basin.”

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[Rem_NL]

My question I want a scientific answer for is: Can too much of the same commercial have an adverse affect?

[Whoo]

I almost FORGOT El Nino even exists!

I mean, hell... hardly ANYONE talks about it anymore, for some reason!  But in the late 90s, I remember how news channels and weather experts GALORE covered it almost nonstop for a few months straight!  Even Time had a cover about it in 98 or 99

[steve]

It was, and still is, Fernando Torres.

[SparLeonidas]

El Niño is Spanish for.... "the Niño."

-Chris Farley

[FORCENSX]

Almost 1 million subscribed, well done D news!

[rosecityandbeyond]

CLIMATE CHANGE!!!! ....brought to you a car company. Really? Are you guys blind to the irony?

[kahlering]

Could you please make a video going more in depth about the El Nina process?

[punja]

I always wondered why we couldnt control the weather, I guess he just answered my question

[AntiNukeLlama]

I love how there's ads before the show and also during the show

[mozandrahbastien]

Wow that was short, sweet and dry informative.

[drage]

In Australia (Melbourne) we have been getting so much rain over the past month. Its crazy

[stennersaurus]

I watched 'The day after tomorrow' yesterday, which is basically a realisation of El Niño's. Basically hurricanes kill everyone, great film.

[Hendlton]

I learned this in geography in primary school.

[rafafr]

Here in são Paulo we are facing the biggest dryness( is that correct?) in the last 100 years, some dams are below 7%. The problem is so serious that some smaller cities have declared state of emergency, and have their water supplies cutted to near zero.

[farahstar]

The weather has been crazy here in SW florida 3 tornadoes in just one week touched down.

[yummyjackalmeat]

"If you can remember 1997..." Haha, am I too old for youtube?

[mhs]

El Nino, it's Spanish for... the nino. Man I love Chris Farley

[RikoLime]

The fact that "Trace was curious and decided to do some digging" as opposed to not already knowing the reference, despite his age... Its pretty common to understand the reference and meaning.. why would you need to research it just to find out?

Also, dry areas in others for wet in certain areas, or reverse... seeing as how I live in the US, Id prefer more rain here. Dry hot weather here sucks as it is, and it gets horribly hot. 

[sarfios]

I want a video about ITER! And specialist opinions about the project!

[LydiaIsSweet]

A legendary football player as far as I know.