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[–] tyler@programming.dev 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s the fifth paragraph…

In order to be considered an El Niño, temperatures in that zone need to be 0.5 C above the average.

And then five paragraphs later they even explain it more.

El Niño and La Niña are part of a larger, natural cyclical cycle called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which occurs in a specific part of the Pacific Ocean.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

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