El Niño represents warm tropical Pacific ocean conditions that typically peak around December-January due to historical Spanish colonial naming ('the Christ child' arriving at Christmas), while La Niña represents the opposite cool phase
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Gavin SchmidtEvidence Quote
“it was something that would arrive uh around the holiday season and so that's what it was called”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:14:45 PM
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