Do you not think that the Nino 3.4 area (drawn from data from the Hadley Center HadISST)

nino34-4.jpeg (1200×600) (wordpress.com)

and the ENS ONI

Ensemble Oceanic Nino Index (webberweather.com)

both show the El Nino of 1878 was not statically dissimilar to that of 2016?