What is a ‘super El Niño’ and what might it mean for the global climate?

• "El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon characterised by the warming of the ocean surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, that typically occurs every two to seven years and tends to last between nine and 12 months. During El Niño years, the winds that would push warm waters to the west soften or shift direction, enabling the surface waters in that part of the Pacific to warm."

• "Each El Niño event is unique, with impacts that are highly variable and change considerably depending on region and season. But the cycle tends to create drought and heat across Australia, around southern and central Africa, in India and in parts of South America, including in the Amazon rainforest. Heavy precipitation, meanwhile, could hit the southern tier of the US, parts of the Middle East, and south-central Asia. It also flips hurricane activity, suppressing development in the Atlantic Ocean while increasing the likelihood that powerful tropical storms will churn out of the Pacific."

• "The stronger it is, the more likely it will supercharge weather events around the world. A super El Niño in 2015 brought severe drought in Ethiopia, water supply shortages in Puerto Rico, and smashed records after unleashing a vicious hurricane season in the central-north Pacific, according to an a***ysis by US federal scientists."

It hasnt rained in like a month where im at

it gets even neater when you look at the pattern

we call that a chinook over here

My personal a***ysis corroborates this

Aint you nathaniel b?

Is this good

well its all a matter of perspective

Don't say that, cabron!

She's already late...