El Niño Climate Change
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UN Warns El Niño Is ‘Supersizing Before Our Eyes’ as World Faces Extraordinary Weather Threat One of the planet’s most powerful natural climate patterns is rapidly intensifying, with the United Nations warning that El Niño is being “supersized before our eyes” as extraordinarily warm Pacific waters threaten to reshape weather across much of the world. The World Meteorological Organization says there is now an exceptionally high probability — approaching 100 per cent — that El Niño will persist through February 2027. It is expected to strengthen into a very powerful event towards the end of 2026, increasing the chances of severe heat, drought, flooding and disrupted rainfall thousands of miles from the tropical Pacific where it originates. This does not mean every drought, storm or heatwave over the coming months will be caused by El Niño. Nor does an exceptionally strong El Niño guarantee catastrophe everywhere. What it does mean is that one of the largest natural forces capable of reorganising the global atmosphere is entering an unusually intense phase at the same time as oceans and the wider climate system are already extremely warm.
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