Don't say you weren't warned -or is this old news?

It has been reported that El Nino 'could strike this year'. This must be that he could strike again this year, since most of the federal judiciary -including his colleagues at the Court- believe he already struck. Didn't Justice O'Connor tell the 9th Circuit's Judicial Conference that it had been "a big one" ... "a 10" on the Richter Scale?