Your Tío Oscar's doing shots with the 14 year olds.
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I don't want to kiss you like your Tío Oscar.
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But how do El Tío and La Tía affect our weather
and climate from year to year and decade to decade?
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Several recent studies have shown that the IPO phases,
El Tío and La Tía,
have a temporary warming and cooling influence on the planet.
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Since El Niño means“the boy” in Spanish, and La Niña“the girl”,
we could call the warm phase of the IPO“El Tío”(the uncle) and the negative phase“La Tía”(the auntie).
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This is useful because it points the way to better models that could be
used to understand the next few decades of El Tío, La Tía and climate change.