Incoming El Niño is so extreme it doesn't have a scientific name

Incoming El Niño is so extreme it doesn’t have a scientific name

As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow, a climate scientist explains what may be in store for the next year.

Incoming El Niño is so extreme it doesn't have a scientific name

This article originally appeared in Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Daniel Swain has made a name for himself studying the extremes of a warming planet. Fires, floods, droughts, heat, storms: if it’s a record breaker, Swain has probably studied it.  As a climate scientist at the California Institute for Water Resources of the Univer…