A ‘Super’ El Niño Appears to Be Emerging. What’s the Big Deal?

Odds growing for a ‘Super El Niño' that could persist into next spring

You may have heard talk of the possibility of a so-called “Super El Niño” developing in the Pacific Ocean, and those odds are growing stronger.

A "Super El Niño" Could Be Catastrophic - Revolutionary Communists of America

“El Niño” is officially here, but this may only be the beginning of a dangerously supercharged weather event. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts a 63% possibility of a very strong or “Super El Niño” starting between November and January. El Niño is the warm phase of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific Ocean that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures. The phenomenon affects glob…

Super El Niño arrives more than a month early

Sea surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific have remained above the +2.0°C threshold for a "super" El Niño for more than a week, reaching an anomaly of around +2.1°C by mid-July — more than a month early.

A ‘super’ El Niño appears to be emerging. What’s the big deal?

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El Niño is already scrambling fisheries throughout the Pacific

We’re not even one month into “super” El Niño, the natural Pacific weather pattern characterized by warmer than average sea surface temperatures, and fisheries around the world are already getting scrambled.