User blog comment:DQw4w9WgXc/Vote El Niño 2020/@comment-29917776-20181208131450/@comment-37323854-20181208205920

Okay, how about this (for the North Atlantic):

1997 (El Niño): ACE = 41

1998 (La Niña): ACE = 182

2015 (El Niño): ACE = 63

2016 (La Niña): ACE = 141

Are you starting to see a pattern?