CLIMATE OF INDIA
EL NINO AND SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS
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“The Child, “ due to its appearance around the Christmas season
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“The Chile, “ due to its appearance around Thanksgiving
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“The Kid", due to its appearance around Easter
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“The Family", due to its appearance around 4th of July
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term El Niño translates from Spanish as ‘the boy-child’. Peruvian fishermen originally used the term to describe the appearance, around Christmas, of a warm ocean current off the South American coast. It is now the commonly accepted term to describe the warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term El Niño (Spanish for ‘the Christ Child’) refers to a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-3: -El-Nino is a warm ocean current that sometimes appears off the coast of Peru in South America during the month of December. It increases the surface temperature of the sea and affects the movement of monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean and causes a drought-like situation in the Indian sub-continent.