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Simon Ormiston

UN warns El Nino could be strongest on record as it urges world to prepare

The current El Nino could reach a strength never seen in modern records, United Nations officials warned on Wednesday, calling on governments to act now to limit the damage.

"The current El Nino event could be unprecedented in strength. Literally off the monitoring charts that we have used for the past four decades," Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told reporters in Geneva.

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