The El Niño phenomenon

A boy fetches a pail of water in a makeshift well inside a compound in Tondo Manila. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) revealed the Philippines have already started feeling the effects of the El Niño phenomenon because of the lack of rain for the past three moths which could extend up to July this year.El Niño, Spanish word for “The Child”, is a weather phenomenon associated with the unusual warming in the Equatorial Pacific.