El Niño has officially ended, here's what's next

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- As expected, Thursday the Climate Prediction Center announced the climate pattern known as El Niño has come to an end as sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific continued to cool closer to normal.
An ENSO Neutral Phase is hereEl Niño is the warm phase of the climate pattern known as ENSO or El Niño-Southern Oscillation. As temperatures in a specific area of the eastern Pacific cool closer to normal, then the effects of El Niño fade.