The coastal El Niño? Please is a bad name not to recognize that we have failed with the forecasts of La Niña. Positive anomalies of sea surface temperatures extend to the Galápagos Islands, 500 miles off the coast. This is not coastal. Floods, landslides, and above-normal rains in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia are typical of El Niño. A coastal El Niño would not have a signal in southeastern South America, but in the Northeastern Uruguay and Argentina, Paraguay and southern Brazil we had rains above normal; This is typical of El Niño.