El Niño 2026: Racing Toward Unprecedented Strength as Pacific Waters Surge
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El Niño 2026: Racing Toward Unprecedented Strength as Pacific Waters Surge
The 2026 El Niño has surged to +2.9°C above average in the Niño 3.4 region, already the strongest for this time of year on record. With a 75% chance of becoming the most intense event since 1950, it arrives atop record ocean heat from climate change, promising widespread weather extremes. Scientists warn of uncharted impacts ahead.
The equatorial Pacific warms up, the trade winds weaken, the thermocline deforms: droughts, cyclones, disturbed fishing on a quarter of the globe, it is El Niño. Predicted 6 to 9 months in advance, the one of 2026-2027 is expected to be rare. Does global warming amplify its effects?
Climate scientists are apprehensive: the synergy between global warming and the rare El Niño species, which has not been recorded since the late 1990s, is capable of creating meteorological scenarios for which modern science lacks an empirical basis; the current climate phenomenon is unique, for the first time in almost 30 years, caused by the anomalous heat of the eastern Pacific, rather than the central, sector, making the entire array ... The…
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