"Little Baby Jesus" was blamed for spoiling the fishing catch every year around Christmas.
"Little Baby Jesus" was blamed for spoiling the fishing catch every year around Christmas. It was later noticed that the effect was especially severe at irregular intervals, and the name was reserved only for the more anomalous episodes, when westward-blowing trade winds weaken and warm surface water flows eastward along the equator. For ten points, identify this effect which can cause drought in Indonesia and Australia, but extreme rainfall and flooding along the west coast of the Americas.
"Little Baby Jesus" was blamed for spoiling the fishing catch every year around Christmas.
{EL NINO} (also accept: {El Nino}/Southern Oscillation)