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No, the El Nino is a climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean on average every five years.
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What do people in call Santa in Chile?
El Nino Dios.
How does el nino effect Chile?
For the most part, the countries that El Nino effects are Indonesia and Australia. However, the southeastern part of the US is also affected.
What is an acronym for ENSO?
El Nino-Southern Oscillation
What acronym is an ENSO?
El Nino-Southern Oscillation
What country does El Nino affect most?
El nino is a weather pattern that can negatively impact the weather of the areas it affects. El nino typically impacts Mexico and the United States. The part of the world impacted is the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Does the gulf stream affect northern Europe because of el nino?
El Nino is unrelated to the gulf stream's influence on Europe.
What is an el nino southern California?
The El Nino is an unusual warm ocean conditionswhich have amazing effects on weather patterns around the world.
Where does the El Nino cause drought?
El Nino does not cause droughts. El Nino is a 27 mile long ocean current off the western coast of South America. It has little effect on anything outside of its locality. It does or does not send warmer waters up the western cost of the western hemisphere, but has very little meteorological effect. What you may be reaching for is called the "Southern Oscillation." This is an atmospheric current that cycles every seven years (approximately). The Southern Oscillation has an affect on El Nino that can cause it to cycle into what is referred to as the La Nina cycle. The Southern Oscillation can affect weather patterns globally, but concentrates in the southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Somehow western media grabbed onto the term "El Nino" about fifteen years ago and began applying it to referrences to the Southern Oscillation, perhaps because it was sexier for the talking heads to rattle off a Spanish sounding term than the more mundane correct term.
Is el nino a weather or phenomenon?
El Nino is the warm phase of El Nino Southern Oscillation, with La Nina being the cool phase. It could be considered a quasi-periodic weather phenomenon.
How can el nino be prevented?
The El Nino can not be prevented. The El Nino bounces from South America across the Pacific Ocean and then across the Indian ocean to Africa and then bounces back to South America. Another name for it is "The southern ocean oscillation."
What is associated with El Nino?
Warmer than usual waters that can sometimes reach the southern California coast.
What kind of weather pattern is caused by a strong El Nino?
The El Nino phase can cause an increase in number and intensity of hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin. It can cause severe floods in places such as southern California, and droughts in other locations.
