El Niño

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El Niño is a climate pattern characterized by the unusual warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Meaning "the little boy" or "Christ Child" in Spanish, it occurs every two to seven years and dramatically alters global weather, bringing droughts to some regions and heavy rainfall to others.

Via: The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News - https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news - Writer: Gregory Andrews - Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue line represents a different year since 1982. The red line is this year. It doesn't just set a new record. It has departed entirely from the range of previous observations.

• The first thing to understand is that this is not a computer model. It's not a forecast. It's not a simulation of what might happen decades from now. These are direct observations from satellites, ships and ocean buoys measuring the temperature of the tropical Pacific Ocean. This is reality unfolding now before our eyes.