On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Gail Van Velzer <vanvelzer at charter.net> wrote: > This is all very interesting. Did anyone hear of El Nino's before 1980? I don't remember when I first heard of it, but there are recorded El Nino events back to the 1700s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o