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The opposing climate pattern known as El Niño, associated with warmer ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific, came to an end in June after a year-long reign, according to NOAA.
This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said on ...
It is now "virtually certain" that 2024 - a year punctuated by intense heatwaves and deadly storms - will be the world's warmest on record, according to projections by the European climate service ...
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 ...
2023's June-July-August season was the warmest on record globally by a large margin, as El Niño conditions continued to develop. [16] September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an average surface air temperature 0.5 °C above the temperature of the previous warmest September (2020). [17]
A study of climate records has shown that El Niño events in the equatorial Pacific are generally associated with a warm tropical North Atlantic in the following spring and summer. [152] About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool to become unusually large in summer. [153]
Last year holds the current title of warmest year on record, but 2024 is near-guaranteed to take over ... Climate scientists now believe 2024 will be the first year with temperatures more than 1 ...
Hotter weather pattern this year comes on top of warming witnessed in last few years ... The year 2016 is currently the warmest year on record, and there is a 93 per cent likelihood of at least ...