Like, where is this wave, how fast is it moving, and where is it headed?

So where is the wave? It starts at the far western end of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, okay? And this is the main way that El Niño affects what goes on on the w- U.S.

West Coast, and actually through a lot of the s- South American coast too.

Um, so what happens is essentially during a not El Niño time, the normal times, the wind is blowing from the east towards the west right at the equator.

It's pushing all this warm water towards the west, okay? And it kind of pi- it actually almost piles up.

You can think of it as piling up like a mountain of water.

And what happens when an El Niño ha- starts is that it disrupts the normal sort of atmos- atmospheric pattern.

You know, the headlines have made it sound scary, but how s- how scary is it, or what, what should we be concerned about here, if anything?

in the water, on the pier, fishing, what are some of the signs that we might notice if we weren't paying attention to NOAA or all this cool data and websites and graphs that are out there on the internet for us to prove? Well,

if you're in the water, you might, during the late summer, you might notice this year that the water is probably, if you know what the waters are normally like, you'd be like, wow, it's pretty damn warm.

Yeah.

So you'd probably notice the warm waters.

You might notice critters that you wouldn't normally see.

So sometimes like in past El Ninos and things like that, we'll get, you know, those red crabs, those pelagic red crabs.

Sometimes they'll wash up on the beach.

heard dorado are out there