What are the positive and negative effects of El Nino?

Question

Can anyone tell me? I know the whole El Nino idea, just not what the positive and negative effects of it are?

Thanks! (=

Answer 1

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positive=warmer climate, warmer summers..etc. (We haven't had like a consistent summer with like high 80 low-mid 90 weather since El Nina started)
negative=storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, climate weather is worse. During El Nino, that is when the hurricane season hits the hardest. Although we have warmer weather, storms an such have a greater potential of becoming horrid and dangerous.
And Fidel is an idiot because it is not a storm, El Nino and El Nina is how meteorologists categorize what kind of phase the Earth is going through. I believe it changes like every 8 to 10 years.

Answer 2

no space.

Answer 3

it was a hurricane.


im guessing it destoyed alot of civilization properties so those are the negetives.

the positives??? i have no idea!!! i would love to hear an opinion on how it was a positive effect. i can only think of the earth having some positives in it, but how?

Answer 4

The positive,You will be able to swim the Polar Ice Caps any month of the year.

The negative, Anyone living below Fargo, North Dakota will be on a steady diet of Soylent Green.

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Dr. Rush Limberger

Answer 5

I don't know all of the effects of El Nino but, I think every negative effect equates to a possitive effect elsewhere. For example: El Nino affects weather patterns. Where I live, in Southern California El Nino can mean more than normal rainfall. Southern California is prone to drought and so we need those periodic extra rainfall years. Just as the additional rainfall helps this area there are other areas that may get less rainfall as a result of El Nino. That might be a negative effect. Even here, additional rainfall is both a possitive and a negative effect of as the additional rainfall often brings dangerous flooding conditions with it.
Another effect of El Nino is that ocean waters in my area are warmer which means that fish species that are less commonly found locally become more abundant in local waters. A possitive for us. That doesn't mean there are more fish. Those fish would have otherwise been further south. Therefore whereever those fish came from has fewer fish. That would be negative for them.
I'm sure there are many more possitive and negative effects that can be mentioned. Those are the ones that I am familiar with.

Answer 6

There is an ocean current (warm) that goes into the pacific ocean and causes fish to swim away from that spot. There are also very strong winds that cause floods.

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my brain and teacher

Answer 7

poop

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