floofloof@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoEl Niño is here, and it’s already looking like it could be 'mind-blowing'www.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down12
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkEl Niño is here, and it’s already looking like it could be 'mind-blowing'www.cbc.cafloofloof@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoNeither of those quotes explain what it is. They just explain how El Nino is defined and that it’s part of a “cyclical cycle(?)” My layman’s understanding is that one makes summers wetter with more severe storms and the other makes it drier during summer.
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoThose are the effects of the cycle. But those definitions are literally exactly what they are. El Niño is when the pacific is °0.5c above average
Neither of those quotes explain what it is. They just explain how El Nino is defined and that it’s part of a “cyclical cycle(?)”
My layman’s understanding is that one makes summers wetter with more severe storms and the other makes it drier during summer.
Those are the effects of the cycle. But those definitions are literally exactly what they are. El Niño is when the pacific is °0.5c above average