{
  "id": 5275871,
  "title": "Dürren und Überschwemmungen: Warnung vor Klimaphänomen: „El Niño mit Super-Ausmaßen“",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/durren-und-uberschwemmungen-warnung-vor-klimaphanomen-el-nino-mit",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-03T07:11:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/duerren-und-ueberschwemmungen-warnung-vor-klimaphaenomen-el-nino-mit-super-ausmassen/100251708.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "The world can brace itself for extreme heat, droughts, and flooding in the coming months due to an unusually strong El Niño phenomenon, warned the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures, which strongly influence global weather, are already unusually high. \"The El Niño is reaching super-sized proportions before our eyes,\" said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. \"The world is in the danger zone of extreme weather events.\" The WMO uses the term \"Super-El Niño,\" although not all experts employ this phrase. The organization considers calculations from multiple weather services around the globe for its El Niño predictions. This natural phenomenon occurs every two to seven years, not caused by climate change, but it can exacerbate its consequences. The tropical Pacific El Niño begins with the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central-eastern equatorial Pacific, which are already between 2.2 and 2.6 degrees above the long-term average. By July and early August, the water was in some parts even more than 8 degrees warmer below the surface. Warm, moist air then rises, changing global wind and air currents. Often, this leads to droughts and dry spells in Australia, Indonesia, and southern Africa, while heavy rain is common along South America's west coast, in East Africa, and the southern United States. Europe is less affected. Higher temperatures over land are often particularly high after an El Niño year. The year 2024, which was the hottest so far with around 1.6 degrees above the pre-industrial level, followed an El Niño. Until now, the months of 2026 have been mostly above average. The July was the second warmest in western Europe since measurements began, with an average temperature of 22.48 degrees, around 2.5 degrees above the average from 1991 to 2020. The WMO forecasts practically above-average temperatures across all land surfaces of the Earth from September to November. The surface temperatures in the northern and southern tropical Atlantic could also change the effects of El Niño in different regions, it was also said.",
  "summary": "Ein sehr warmer Pazifik dürfte für extreme Wetterlagen sorgen: Hitze, Dürren und Überschwemmungen. Warum der UN-Generalsekretär von einem El Niño mit Super-Ausmaßen spricht.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}