El niño is obviously a weather event that occurs in irregular intervals over the Pacific Ocean, and this weather event will cause intense rain storms around the Pacific rim and can cause drought in other areas of North and South America. This affects more than the people of these two continents. For example, the large amounts of rainfall that occur around the Pacific rim during el Niño means that there will be drought in other places. In Indonesia, the rain is so scarce that the agricultural projects in this country fail, and cause starvation on a large scale.
Also, the large rainfall in areas like Peru and California can cause mudslides and other natural disasters that can cause mass devastation. Some of the worst kinds of destruction an El Niño can cause involves disease. In areas like India and South Africa, the weather conditions that occur because of El Niño become perfect breading grounds for bacteria. It also results in the mosquito population increasing which causes a large amount of malaria to spread.
El Niño affects more than the weather around the Pacific Ocean. Everything is interconnected, which means that if abnormal weather events are occurring around the Pacific, people in India or Africa may feel the worst effects.
