Chico Harlan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Aug
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And that hot water that's normally stored on the Asian side can come all the way over towards the South American side.
And just explain why that is so meaningful.
Well, let's just remember that the Pacific is huge.
So imagine how much extra warmth it takes to warm that body of water by a couple degrees.
That's the extra energy that you're adding to the room of.
Of this rectangle that we initially talked about.
And when that happens, you have this warmth that rises into the atmosphere like 10 kilometers or six miles high.
I've heard it described that the ocean and the atmosphere are kind of always interacting together in this like tug of war.
And so when you have this extra column of warmth going up there, that changes everything, leads to changes in pressure.
Changes in winds.
And this, of course, can steer storms and steer where moisture travels.
Another way of thinking about this.
I've sometimes heard El Nino described as the biggest reorganizer of the world's climate patterns, aside from the change in seasons.
That's how big it is.
Right, and that is where the El Niño's consequences start to play out for us, the people and animals living on land.
Uh, they can be huge.
And they were apparent going back centuries at least.
I mean, before we even knew what El Niño was.
In the sixteen hundreds, there were Spanish colonists in Peru who started noticing tropical fish every couple of years strangely washing up on their shores.
And so this would happen around December.
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