El Nino :

El Nino : (Short Essay)

An unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific that occurs once in every 3 to 5 years is called El Nino. In other words, El Nino is the oscillation of the ocean atmosphere system especially in the tropical Pacific. Generally, El Nino has global impact on the weather patterns. We can identify an El Nino when we see the weakened trade winds in the Central and Western Pacific. Surface water temperatures off South America become warmer. This is generally due to the reason that the cold water does not up well much from below to cool the surface. The clouds, rainstorms or any such aspects that are related to warm ocean waters shift toward the east. As a result, a lot of energy is released by the warm waters causing a drastic weather change all over the planet.

El Nino : (Brief Essay)

El Nino (means The Little Boy or Christ child in Spanish) is a Southern Oscillation (A Climate Cycle) that creates a global impact in the weather patterns every 3 to 5 years. An El Nino is declared to happen when the warm waters of western tropical Pacific Ocean shift to the east. During an el Nino, ocean temperatures and rainfall from storms suddenly move towards the east.

El Niños occur every three to five years. Sometimes they occur once in 2 years few other times they occur every seven years. An El Nino lasts 9 months to 12 months. They can be seen their peak during the months of December and January.

During an El Niño:

Across the globe:

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