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Could it be El Nino?

[John H K]

Nope.

El Nino, per se, is purely a Pacific phenomenon, in terms of water temps, etc. but of course it does affect flow patterns worldwide in the atmosphere.

And actually there is no El Nino, or La Nina, right now. It's "La Nada"...neither. The Pacific has been basically neutral for a rather long time.