I was tracking a completely separate metric a few days ago out in the Pacific that tracks El Nino... and super duper long story short, it looks like it'll be a very hot and dry summer, and somewhat mild winter. In other words... droughts and fires in the west. On the plus side, (another IIRC...) ocean hurricanes should be pushed away in the Atlantic more because of El Nino, hopefully that doesn't mean Gulf hurricanes are worse, though.