If you are looking for ways to explain El Niño to producers or your parents or children, you might be interested in two recent resources on El Niño that I found online.

The World Meteorological Organization has a simple 3-minute video tutorial which explains what El Niño is and how it affects global climate at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92Iqihct98.

Closer to home, the NWS office in Tampa Bay, Florida has provided a new “map journal” of the impacts of El Niño on Florida.  You can view it here.  While geared towards Florida, much of the information is generally applicable to the Southeast.

Source: NOAA
Source: NOAA