Share to ClassroomMet Office Warns: Strong El Niño
The Met Office is Britain's weather service. It says a very strong El Niño is coming. El Niño is a change in the Pacific Ocean. The water at the top becomes much warmer than usual. It is already more than 2C too warm. It may become 3C too warm later this year. That has never happened since records began in 1950.
El Niño comes back every two to seven years. Winds that blow across the Pacific become weak. So warm water moves to the east. Heat then goes from the ocean into the air.
This makes the whole world hotter. The Met Office says 2027 will probably be the hottest year ever. Rain in India is much weaker than normal. Britain may have a wet and stormy autumn. Australia may have very dry weather. Peru and Ecuador may have floods.
