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Climate crisis: How the supersized El Niño could hit Europe
The World Meteorological Organization says the event could intensify from August and raise the risk of warmer winters, heavy rain and other extremes.
- The World Meteorological Organization forecasts that a "very strong" El Niño will intensify through year's end, potentially triggering an unusual winter across Europe.
- El Niño, a global phenomenon involving warming Pacific Ocean waters, is forecast to be the strongest in four decades, placing the world in a "danger zone of extreme weather," the United Nations warned.
- According to the CMCC, El Niño's impact on Europe remains complex, with consequences varying by region due to nonlinear signals and Atlantic conditions affecting the forecast.
- Warmer-than-Normal conditions may emerge this winter in Europe, contradicting colder autumn temperatures typically associated with El Niño, according to guidance from the European Commission.
- Researcher Davide Faranda of the CNRS Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences warned, "We expect very heavy rainfall when atmospheric conditions are conducive to the formation.
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Climate crisis: How the supersized El Niño could hit Europe
With Europe already seeing record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather episodes the summer, here's how meteorologists say the supersized El Niño phenomenon could hit the continent's climate in the coming months.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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