El Niño weather pattern enters record territory: Scientist

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Add as preferred source Animals are dropping dead amid the worst drought in living memory for many Central Americans, who are grappling with the unforgiving effects of the powerful El Nino weather pattern. The strengthening El Niño weather pattern has tied for the most intense on record on a widely used metric, a senior scientist told AFP on Monday, even as its influence is already being felt from Central America to Indonesia.

Zeke Hausfather, a climatologist at Berkeley Earth and co-author of comprehensive climate change reports for the United Nations, said the sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific now stands at 3.07°C, tying the 2015–16 El Niño.