Peru is the country that often experiences the first and worst effects of El Nino, including severe flooding.
El Nino is a climatic pattern which describes the unusual warming of surface waters and it is part of a larger phenomenon called 'El Nino - southern oscillation (ENSO)'.
ENSO includes the El Nino and La Nino, the warm phase and cool phase respectively. El Nino occurs irregularly at two - seventy years intervals.
El Nino events are indicated by the increase in sea surface temperature by 0.9 Fahrenheit for at least five successive three months intervals.
El Nino has devastating impacts on the Peruvian and Ecuadorian economies. They cause an increase in precipitation which results in a drastically increased rainfall contributing to coastal flooding and erosion. It also destroys buildings, crops and limits transportation.
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