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As El Niño exits, La Niña looms and promises her style of mayhem

Think of it as Mother Natures roller-coaster ride: the shift between the weather patterns known as El Nio and La Nia that, at their worst, can cause havoc worldwide.

By Brian K. Sullivan | Updated on May 23, 2016

(Bloomberg) – Think of it as Mother Nature’s roller-coaster ride: the shift between the weather patterns known as El Niño and La Niña that, at their worst, can cause havoc worldwide.

El Niño — spurred on by a warming of the equatorial Pacific — has dried up rice crops across Southeast Asia, cocoa fields in Ghana, coffee in Indonesia and sugar cane in Thailand since last year. It contributed to the Western Hemisphere’s strongest hurricane on record and the planet’s warmest year since at least the 1880s.

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