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I am sick and friggin tired of these El Ninos!

Is it me, or are we having one EVERY SINGLE YEAR now?!

When can Minnesota ever have a normal winter anymore?

Is anyone else tired of these El Ninos?

I am sick and friggin tired of these El Ninos!

Is it me, or are we having one EVERY SINGLE YEAR now?!

When can Minnesota ever have a normal winter anymore?

Is anyone else tired of these El Ninos?
We never get the effects of El Nino where I live. I think it might be an urban legend.

And to quote the late great Chris Farly: "I am El Nino, which means...the...nino!

It's the damn global warming.

Is this an American thing? Whats an El Nino?

Is this an American thing? Whats an El Nino?

Global weather condition. Normal conditions are called "La Nina", but when things go bad it's "El Nino" or "Problem Child".

In Australia, in El Nino causes droughts and drops agricultural production.

Weather condition. Normal conditions are called "La Nina", but when things go bad it's "El Nino" or "Problem Child".
"El nino" translates to "the boy"

"El nino" translates to "the boy"

From http://library.thinkquest.org/20901/name_meaning.htm?tqskip1=1

El Niño \’el ne’ nyo noun [Spanish]\ 1: The Christ Child 2: the name given by Peruvian sailors to a seasonal, warm southward-moving current along the Peruvian coast <la corriente del niño> 3: name given to the occasional return of unusually warm water in the normally cold water [upwelling] region along the Peruvian coast, disrupting local fish and bird populations 4: name given to a Pacific basin-wide increase in both sea surface temperatures in the central and/or eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and in sea level atmospheric pressure in the western Pacific (Southern Oscillation) 5: used interchangeably with ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation), which describes the basin-wide changes in air-sea interaction in the equatorial Pacific region 6: ENSO warm event synonym warm event antonym SEE La Nina \ [Spanish] \ the young girl; cold event; ENSO cold event; non-El Niño year; anti-El Niño or anti-ENSO (pejorative); El Viejo \ ‘el vya ho \ noun [Spanish] \ the old man

(I was just doing stuff from memory)

From http://library.thinkquest.org/20901/name_meaning.htm?tqskip1=1

El Niño \’el ne’ nyo noun [Spanish]\ 1: The Christ Child 2: the name given by Peruvian sailors to a seasonal, warm southward-moving current along the Peruvian coast <la corriente del niño> 3: name given to the occasional return of unusually warm water in the normally cold water [upwelling] region along the Peruvian coast, disrupting local fish and bird populations 4: name given to a Pacific basin-wide increase in both sea surface temperatures in the central and/or eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and in sea level atmospheric pressure in the western Pacific (Southern Oscillation) 5: used interchangeably with ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation), which describes the basin-wide changes in air-sea interaction in the equatorial Pacific region 6: ENSO warm event synonym warm event antonym SEE La Nina \ [Spanish] \ the young girl; cold event; ENSO cold event; non-El Niño year; anti-El Niño or anti-ENSO (pejorative); El Viejo \ ‘el vya ho \ noun [Spanish] \ the old man

(I was just doing stuff from memory)

I kept it in lower case so my translation works. :)

I am sick and friggin tired of these El Ninos!

Is it me, or are we having one EVERY SINGLE YEAR now?!

When can Minnesota ever have a normal winter anymore?

Is anyone else tired of these El Ninos?
No, cause while you get the El Ninos, NZ gets the La Ninas, and it's a nice change back to barmy hot Summers and Mild winters after a decade of wet shit Summers and cold miserable Winters.
Sorry if that sounds selfish. ;)

And hey, get used to it. Of course according to your Pres, there's no such thing as Global Warming. Based on faulty science apparently. So these El Nino/La Nina events that are now happening annually (so it feels) instead of 10-20 cycles are just the figment of our collective imaginations. Or something like that.