Super-El-Niño fuels the rumor kitchen: Does the winter of the century follow? What the weather models show – and why the polar vortex has the last word.
Super-El-Niño fuels the rumor kitchen: Does the winter of the century follow? What the weather models show – and why the polar vortex has the last word.
The phenomenon had been monitored for several months, but the latest projections now reinforce the hypothesis of a particularly powerful El Niño. According to data reported by the Climate Prediction Center of the NOAA, the probability of a very marked ocean warming in the equatorial Pacific between October and December 2026 would reach 81%. A level that places the current episode among the most serious observed since the beginning of modern surv…