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How El Niño shapes our weather
Discover how a warm ocean current in the Pacific triggers a global domino effect, reshaping weather patterns, ecosystems, and human lives across the globe.
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by diego · Aug 19, 2026
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Chapter 1
How Peruvian fishermen discovered El Niño
1The Christmas arrival of warm waters
2Gilbert Walker and the atmospheric seesaw
3Jacob Bjerknes connects ocean to air
4The devastating 1982 super El Niño
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Chapter 2
The physical engine of the Pacific
1The normal state of the Pacific
2The collapse of the trade winds
3Sinking the deep ocean thermocline
4Shifting the global Walker Circulation
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Chapter 3
The global domino effect of weather
1Teleconnections link distant climates
2Heavy floods in the Americas
3Scorching droughts in Australia and Asia
4The impact on global food prices
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Chapter 4
The cool sibling and the ENSO cycle
1La Niña is the cold opposite
2The climate seesaw of La Niña
3The neutral phase in between
4How the cycle swings back and forth
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Chapter 5
Watching the ocean from space and sea
1The underwater sentinels of the Pacific
2Satellites mapping the ocean from space
3Supercomputers predicting the weather
4El Niño in a warming world
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