El Niño is like that one friend who is totally predictable in their personality but always manages to surprise you when they show up.
- It is a cyclic weather pattern that returns every two to seven years.
- While we know it’s coming, it is impossible to predict exactly how it will affect different regions.
- The same warming in the Pacific can cause heavy rain in one place and severe drought in another.
- The specific time of year it hits changes its impact significantly.
Even though we can see it coming, the true extent of its global impact remains a mystery until it arrives.