Ah El Niño, the winter is closing in on you my so-often misrepresented phenomena. All those media headlines promising that you'll do this, that, and the other, and for what? Yes, that's right, you never promised one thing or another, other than to be a warm area of ocean in the central and southern Pacific and that you will attempt to shift seasonal areas of heavy versus light precipitation. That you have. No two El Niños are alike For the current winter, December and January (February's data