El Nino sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
And shortly after smaller 50 to 100 meter high waves will impact the African west coast, meanwhile a solid wave 500 kilometers across surges westwards across the Atlantic towards America.
As the Savage stepped out of his taxicopter a convoy of gaily-coloured aerial hearses rose whirring from the roof and darted away across the Park, westwards, bound for the Slough Crematorium.
Thereafter the Japanese began to push further westwards and much of the fighting between the British and Japanese in 1942 and 1943 focused on Burma and the region around modern-day Bangladesh.