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Early data shows June temperatures hitting record highs ahead of El Niño that experts say will have significant heating effect

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts summer 2023 will be hotter than average.

After months of warning, experts have confirmed that the ocean-warming event El Niño is here and will gradually strengthen into the winter, with a potential worldwide climate impact.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared on Thursday that the El Nino climate pattern is now underway, bringing the threat of more frequent tropical cyclones in the Pacific, increased rainfall and flooding in parts of the Americas and rising temperatures across the globe.

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An El Nino is a natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that shifts weather patterns across the globe, often by moving the airborne paths for storms.

Countries are racing to prepare for extreme weather later this year as the world tips into an El Nino — a natural climate phenomenon that fuels tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in parts of the Americas and elsewhere.

A US government forecaster on Thursday confirmed that El Nino conditions are now being seen, with farmers from Australia to India bracing for the possible hit to crops from the dry, hot conditions it could bring.

After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others