'Unprecedented' El Nino to batter UK with storms
Forecasters say the event could push 2027 to record global heat while bringing wetter, stormier weather to north-west Europe, with risks still uncertain.
- On Friday, Britain's Met Office warned that the developing El Niño event is likely the strongest in living memory, with Pacific sea-surface temperatures forecast to exceed 3°C this autumn.
- El Niño develops when tropical Pacific sea temperatures rise, disrupting global weather patterns; climate experts note this event is amplified by human-induced climate change, with global temperatures already significantly higher than pre-industrial levels.
- Projections indicate that 2027 will likely replace 2024 as the hottest year on record as El Niño releases massive ocean heat; officials warn sustained rainfall is still needed to end the ongoing drought.
- The Panama Canal Authority will restrict daily vessel transits starting September 4, 2026, citing watershed inflows 44 per cent below normal levels, while the event raises severe drought risks across South America, Indonesia, and the West Pacific.
- Amid these shifts, the National Drought Group warns that water scarcity risks in England may persist into the new year; researchers stress extreme weather will escalate until fossil fuels are phased out.
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Coral skeletons over a thousand years old show a 36% increase in temperature variability since the pre-industrial era. However, scientists struggled to establish a clear link with warming."When we went, for the first time in 1989, to the Galápagos to study old corals that we had been told had disappeared. It must be said that the El Niño event of 1982-1983 had destroyed 90% of the reefs of the archipelago. It is ironic because it is precisely to…
Research based on Galapagos corals shows that it is 36.5% stronger than during the pre-industrial period, a figure that goes hand in hand with the increase in global temperature.
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As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.
The ocean phenomenon El Niño might actually be partly fueled by global warming after all. That is suggested by new research, just as the...
Not purely natural: El Niño is more intense because of climate change, study finds
New research indicates that El Niño has gotten stronger because of climate change. As the world warms, El Niño can be expected to intensify heat waves and storms even more dramatically.
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