South, Central and North America Very wet weather months AprilOctober along the coasts of northern Peru

and Ecuador, causing major flooding, Central Chile receives a mild winter with large rainfall Southern Brazil and northern Argentina also experience wetter than normal conditions but mainly during the spring and early summer Significantly wetter winters are present in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States including central and southern California Drier and hotter weather occurs in parts of the Amazon River Basin, Colombia and Central America Winters, during the El Nio effect, are warmer and drier than average in the Northwest, Northmidwest, and Northmideast United States, and therefore those regions experience reduced snowfalls. El Nio is credited with suppressing hurricanes and made the 2009 hurricane season the least active in twelve years.

Elsewhere in the World Drier conditions occur in parts of Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, increasing bush fires and worsening haze and decreasing air quality dramatically. In Africa, East Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania and the White Nile basin experiences, in the long rains from March to May, wetter than normal conditions. In the high southern latitudes around Antarctica the Weddell Sea tends to become colder with more sea ice during El Nio.