Chico Harlan
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273 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Aug
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So El Nino is a planetary phenomenon that is both totally natural and also a huge chaos agent.
And at the core, it is something that happens in the tropical Pacific.
It is changes that occur there.
And to understand those changes, it helps to think about this rectangle that stretches across the equator in the Pacific Ocean.
It would
Basically run from the coast of Peru, Ecuador, all the way towards like the international dateline.
You're almost in the darkest, most uninhabited territory you could find in the Pacific, south of Hawaii and to the north of the small islands like Fiji and Samoa.
Gotcha.
And normally these waters follow a pretty predictable pattern year by year.
They don't change so much in temperature.
If I can use Celsius, you know.
You
Okay.
Normally they top out in around May at about twenty-eight Celsius.
So they're pretty warm and they don't cool off that much.
But as you enter the summer, the northern hemisphere summer, they start to cool by maybe a degree down to about twenty-seven this time of year.
So that's most years.
And of course, this rectangle is completely imaginary.
It's been concocted by scientists.
And only for this reason they've realized that when things change or go haywire in this part of the ocean, it affects the entire world.
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