Greetings from Cartagena, Columbia. We purchased your Mariners’s Wx Handbook in August and have enjoyed reading it as we sailed West from Curacao. This has been a very unusual year in the Caribbean with the late hurricane “Lenny” that tracked East from Jamaica to St. Martin and now all the rain on the coast of SA in the normally dry month of Dec. It looks like a La Nina event with the cold water off the coast in the Pacific. Your book talks about El Nino but not much about La Nina. We are planning a cruise to the South Pacific this Spring. Can you tell us how this might affect the wx patterns? Or can you give me some references of web sites etc. to check. Hope to hear from you soon and best wishes for the holidays, Tom and Maureen