We meet a teen violinist down by the bayou in Monroe, Louisiana, travel to the rolling farmland of Redlands, California to the home of a driven young guitarist, and hear from a young composer who enjoys the support of his community in Fargo,

La Niña and El Niño are phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate phenomenon that influences the atmosphere on a seasonal scale. They tilt the odds for storms, but they do not dictate the exact ones that make landfall in California.