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El Niño is a natural climate event caused by the Southern Oscillation, popularly known as El Niño or also in meteorological circles as El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO, [6] through which global warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean results in the development of unusually warm waters between the coast of South America and the ...
In 2023, the Atlantic accrued 146 ACE units, making this year the most active season ever during a moderate or strong El Niño. The 2023 hurricane season was the forth most active on record and ...
Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end as unusually warm, storm-boosting ocean temperatures and a slow-to-emerge El Niño combine.
2023's June–July-August season was the warmest on record globally by a large margin, as El Niño conditions continued to develop. [170] August 3–23 – Floods in Carinthia and Slovenia kill seven people. [171] [172] August 3 – 32 people are killed and one is left missing after a landslide in Shovi, Georgia. [173]
In the late winter and spring during El Niño events, drier than average conditions can be expected in Hawaii. [9] On Guam during El Niño years, dry season precipitation averages below normal. However, the threat of a tropical cyclone is over triple what is normal during El Niño years, so extreme shorter duration rainfall events are possible ...
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The risk of a significant bushfire season in south-eastern Australia is higher following an El Niño event, especially when it is combined with a positive Indian Ocean Dipole event. [ 185 ] This section is an excerpt from Effects of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Australia .
Helene to unravel over eastern US with days of cloudy, rainy weather. Renee Duff. September 27, 2024 at 8:59 AM. 1 / 4. Helene to unravel over eastern US with days of cloudy, rainy weather.