The relationship between the inter-annual variations of the earth rotation, atmospheric angular momentum (AAM), sunspot number and El Nifio is analyzed.The result shows that the inter-annual variation of the earth rotation responds to the variation of AAM and the pregnancy of El Nino timely. Generally, the inter-annual compohent of the earth rotation will reach zero in a changing process that increases from the negative to the positive extreme before El Nino occurs about half year or more. And the solar activity may have certain influence on the appearance of El Nino. We consider that El Nino will possibly appear around the end of 2001.``