From LiveScience:
This year’s brewing El Niño will likely become the strongest ever recorded, a new forecast warns.
Earth’s last El Niño ran from June 2023 to April 2024, delivering an injection of heat to our already warming world that made 2024 the hottest year on record and the first to breach the 1.5 C (2.7 F) warming limit — a key guardrail set by the Paris Agreement, after which the effects of climate change become increasingly disastrous. The impacts of previous El Niño periods on global agriculture have been profound, with studies linking the events to famine in Europe; triggers for civil wars in tropical regions; and droughts, floods and forest fires around the world. This year’s El Niño will arrive during a period of increased global food insecurity driven by the Iran war.