UN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September
The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather extremes it brings, the UN has warned.
The powerful natural weather pattern, which raises global temperatures and worsens some rainfall, has an 80% chance of forming before September and a 90% chance before November, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
It found most models projected the return of the cyclical phenomenon in the ocean and atmosphere to be “at least moderate” in strength, and possibly strong.
Scientists have previously warned that it could be the strongest this century. However, the WMO stopped short of backing such projections and said forecasters were still in a window of uncertainty.
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Apart from the potentially dramatic ecologicial concerns, I have it on good, if somewhat dated, authority that El Niño is Spanish for ‘the Niño.’
I thought Nina and nino were something like 11 year cycles and we had only just entered Nina?
They grow up so fast.
(You may be thinking about the sun cycles.)
