El Niño on course to shatter all-time record as ocean logs 100 days of extreme heat
Scientists say the event is driving drought, wildfires and stronger storms across the Pacific as ocean temperatures remain near record levels.
- On Monday, WFLA-TV chief meteorologist Jeff Berardelli announced the current El Niño has broken the record for highest ocean anomaly in over 170 years, reaching 3.05 degrees Celsius above average.
- This event surged past the prior record of 3.02 degrees Celsius set in 2015, reaching that threshold two months early; many meteorologists now refer to the phenomenon as a "super" event.
- Although NOAA refers to the climate pattern as "very strong," the agency anticipates continued strengthening through the end of the year as Pacific Ocean temperatures remain significantly above average.
- Weather influenced by this event brings widespread impacts, typically causing cooler, wetter conditions across the South and warmer, drier conditions in the North between December and March.
- National Weather Service director Ken Graham previously stated that advanced monitoring allows the agency to better predict these patterns; the current event typically persists for nine to 12 months.
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An unusually strong El Niño, which is currently warming the planet, has broken the historical record for this natural phenomenon, several months before its expected peak. The latest measurements show that the temperature increase in the center of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has reached 3.05°C, exceeding the previous record of 3.02°C, recorded at the end of November 2015. This temperature is calculated in relation to the average for the period 1…
British professor: "The developing El Niño will be unprecedented."
Svenska Dagbladet
The surface of the Pacific Ocean is already at record temperatures, and the weather phenomenon El Niño appears to be developing into an extremely strong “super” variant. “There is nothing to compare it to,” says climate scientist Gustav Strandberg.
The running El Niño develops faster than any previous event in the measurement history. Already the August average exceeded almost all previous maximum values
El Niño packed a punch in 2015, during which daily sea-surface time in a significant Pacific region hit a record 3.02C degrees above age that November. This year's El Niño isn't yet at its peak—that's expected in December—and it has already beaten 2015's number. Water in what...
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