The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal

The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal

Last week, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization issued a confident prediction that El Niño will form at some point this summer. They pegged the odds at 80 percent — a striking forecast that nonetheless lacked a firm starting time. Now, however, the first major weather organization has officially called it. According to a statement translated by Gizmodo, the Japanese Meteorological Agency has declared that El Niño is actively upo…