{"id":86102,"date":"2026-09-04T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86102"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:37:28","slug":"el-nino-2026-is-now-the-strongest-in-1000-years-heres-what-that-means-for-your-winter-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/el-nino-2026-is-now-the-strongest-in-1000-years-heres-what-that-means-for-your-winter-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o 2026 Is Now The Strongest In 1,000 Years. Here\u2019s What That Means For Your Winter Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Fast Company:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fastcompany.com\/image\/upload\/f_webp,c_fit,w_1920,q_auto\/wp-cms-2\/2026\/09\/p-1-91600973-super-el-nino.jpg\" alt=\"New report: El Ni\u00f1o 2026 is now the strongest in 1,000 years. Here\u2019s what that means for your winter forecast\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>El Ni\u00f1o is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Michigan, which reconstructed ocean surface temperatures over the last millennium by looking at fossilized corals in the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that, on average, El Ni\u00f1o events have been stronger in the past 40 years than at any time in the past millennium, with higher temperatures that lead to more powerful effects on weather,\u201d Cole wrote in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/galapagos-corals-show-el-nino-events-are-more-extreme-now-than-in-past-1-000-years-heres-how-my-team-made-the-discovery-272318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Conversation<\/em><\/a>. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center is also saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.shtml\">El Ni\u00f1o is strengthening, with a greater than 90% chance of a \u201cvery strong event\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in the Northern Hemisphere during the 2026 hurricane season this fall or winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fast Company: El Ni\u00f1o is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86104,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86102\/revisions\/86104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}