New phenomenon could break the 2015 El Niño record, when the Pacific temperature reached 2.8ºC above average
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO, an agency of the United Nations) reiterated last week that “climate models clearly point in the same direction and predict, with a high level of confidence, the onset of an El Niño episode, which will gain more strength in the coming months”
According to atmospheric sciences professor Paul Roundy, from the State University of New York at Albany, in an interview with The Washington Post, there is a real risk of the strongest El Niño in more than a century, due to an exceptionally intense phenomenon between the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027.
O new phenomenon could break the 2015 El Niño record, when the Pacific temperature reached 2.8ºC above average. If the scenario is confirmed, the effects could be felt on a global scale. Expected impacts include severe droughts in parts of Central America, Central Africa, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
