This year’s rapidly intensifying, climate change-fuelled “super” El Niño is on course to be the strongest on record – and potentially the most powerful in centuries.
“We should be clear that this is an unprecedented event”, said Professor Adam Scaife, head of long range forecasting at the Met Office. “I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts.” Others have described the event as “truly mind-blowing” and “Godzilla-level”.
