Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns (opens in new tab)

submitted by The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather extremes it brings, the UN has warned. The powerful natural weather pattern, which raises global temperatures and worsens some rainfall, has an 80% chance of forming before September and a 90% chance before November, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday. It found most models projected the return of the cyclical phenomenon in the ocean and atmosphere to be “at least modera...