El Nino set to be strongest in more than a century, UK Met Office warns
LONDON, Aug 21 — This year’s El Nino weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century, warming sea surf...
The UK's Met Office has forecast that this year's El Nino event will be the strongest in over a century. According to the Met Office, sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are expected to reach an "unheard-of" level of more than three degrees above average.
This event is predicted to trigger severe droughts in South America and the West Pacific, with potential knock-on effects for global food security. The Met Office's head of long-range forecasting, Adam Scaife, described the El Nino signal as "unprecedented" and "an intense" event.
The anomalous warmth is already nearly two degrees above average, with temperatures in the region currently running about 2.6C above a rolling 30-year average, according to the Climate Brink dashboard.
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