Climate Central: It looks like this El Nio which will rank among the strongest on record has passed its peak in terms of tropical ocean temperatures, but its not going away anytime soon. In fact, the biggest El Nio impacts on the U.S., like rain and snow for California, are probably still to come. The country has already started to feel the influence of El Nio with a recent spate of storms that dumped much-needed precipitation on California. The cold winter months are when El Nio holds sway over North American...