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THE LITTLE BOY & THE LITTLE GIRL

El Niño was coined by South American fisherman in the 1600s who noticed the unusually warm waters in the Pacific that define an El Niño season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains. They named the warm waters after Jesus, literally the “little boy of Christmas,” because El Niño typically peaks in December, around Christmastime. That nickname stuck around for hundreds of years. But La Ni…