Posts Tagged “el niño”
El Niño’s warmer equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean is likely to bring some changes to the 2015-2016 winter in the U.S. According to the Los Angeles Times, this El Niño could be the most powerful on record because as of late November 2015 it is still growing,…
The term El Niño (Spanish for “the Christ Child”) was originally used by fishermen along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru to refer to a warm ocean current that typically appears around Christmastime and lasts for several months. Fish are less abundant during these warm intervals, so fishermen often take a break to repair…