Synonyms for el niño
ɛl ˈnin yoʊel niño

Princeton's WordNet

1. El Ninonoun

   (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time

2. El Ninonoun

   the Christ child

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1. • Jesus
   • Spanish
   • Ocean Current
   • Oceanography

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1. List of known nicknames for "El Niño":

   Ivan Díaz, Niño, El

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1. Gary Whitlock:

   You know, this has been going on for years and everybody that I talk to says, 'Oh, well, you know, it's going to rain, El Nino's coming,'.

2. Gerry Bell:

   What El Niño does is it suppresses the hurricane season mainly during the peak months of the season, which are August, September and October.

3. El Nino:

   While it has certainly been mild across the country, it’s not really something we would attribute to El Nino, the AO is probably playing a bigger role this time.

4. Phil Klotzbach:

   El Niño tends to have its strongest impacts on hurricanes forming in the deep tropics, so, Caribbean storms tend to really get knocked down in El Niño years, due to increases in vertical wind shear.

5. Kevin Trenberth:

   There’s certainly a large natural variability that occurs in the weather but … we often hear about the El Nino phenomenon and at the moment we’re in the La Niña phase. And that certainly influences the kinds of patterns that tend to occur. And so that’s a player as well.