El Nino Made Its Mark In 2015 When the U.S. 2015 crop year is analyzed in years to come–and it will be–there is little doubt in my mind that one of the first phrases to identify this season will be something along the lines of “It was really an El Nino year”. That may seem like a trivial point–after all, Pacific Ocean temperature patterns catalogued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and analyzed by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) show that El Nino warmth (above normal equator region temperatures) went into effect in the February-March-April period, and have…