claim: So it’s been a surprise to climate scientists that 2017 has been so remarkably warm — because the last El Niño ended a year ago.
evidences.evidence_id: 2014–16 El Niño event:0
evidences.article: 2014–16 El Niño event
evidences.evidence: The 2014–16 El Niño was a warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean that resulted in unusually warm waters developing between the coast of South America and the International Date Line.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: El Niño:13
evidences.article: El Niño
evidences.evidence: However, over time the term has evolved and now refers to the warm and negative phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and is the warming of the ocean surface or above-average sea surface temperatures in either the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: El Niño:83
evidences.article: El Niño
evidences.evidence: A study of climate records has shown that El Niño events in the equatorial Pacific are generally associated with a warm tropical North Atlantic in the following spring and summer.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: El Niño:84
evidences.article: El Niño
evidences.evidence: About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool to become unusually large in summer.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: La Niña:0
evidences.article: La Niña
evidences.evidence: La Niña (/lɑːˈniːnjə/, Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈniɲa]) is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the colder counterpart of El Niño, as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO