After two years of drought, rains may break El Nino jinx

El Nino is a climate cycle in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, with warm water pools near Indonesia and the Philippines.

The main reason why meteorologists are optimistic about the monsoon is the waning of Niño, a weather phenomenon which has been blamed for the 2014 and 2015 droughts. This is only the fourth time in the past 115 years that there have been droughts on consecutive years.