UK Could Face 40C Heat as 'Super' El Niño Returns with 90% Chance
UN scientists say a potentially strong El Niño could intensify drought, heavy rain and heatwaves as global temperatures stay elevated.
- On Tuesday, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres announced that El Niño is arriving in the coming months with 90 per cent certainty, urging nations to prepare for the warming phenomenon.
- World Meteorological Organisation forecast models indicate the event is likely between June and August 2026, with the phenomenon warming tropical Equatorial Pacific sea-surface temperatures and compounding human-driven climate change.
- Forecast models indicate an 80 per cent likelihood of the warming event this summer, with probabilities it will continue until at least November near or above 90 per cent.
- The UN warns nations to treat this as 'an urgent climate warning,' cautioning that the event will exacerbate drought and increase the risk of heatwaves on land and in the ocean.
- If this climate phenomenon occurs this year, UN scientists warn it increases the chances of 2027 becoming the next record-breaking year, as El Niño conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world.
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The new weather forecast for this summer begins to notice with El Niño the first impact of the phenomenon that we begin to see right now. We are facing a change of time that may be the one that will affect us fully in a few days in which perhaps it will be necessary to be prepared for some changes that will be a reality soon. We are facing a radical turn that we can begin to visualize a novelty that will hit us hard. What we have ahead this summ…
El Niño conditions set to influence global temperature, rainfall patterns, increasing risk of extreme weather: WMO
Geneva: Fuelled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, El Niño conditions are developing and are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns, increasing the risk of extreme weather over the coming months, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).A new WMO El Niño/La Niña Update indicates an 80% likelihood of an El Niño event during June-August 2026. Probabilities for this to continue until at least …
According to the World Meteorological Organization's forecast, average summer temperatures will increase in most parts of the world as a result of the weather phenomenon.
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