El Niño has reached its strongest level on record!

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the sea surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean region it monitors was measured 4 degrees above normal. It was stated that this rate was the highest level seen since the data recording process started in 1949. Experts described this situation as 'super El Nino'. According to the agency, the previous record was broken in December 1997, with a temperature increase of 3.7 degrees.

IT AFFECTS ECONOMIES BADLY

El Niño has already disrupted weather patterns around the world. This climate event led to the weakest monsoon rainfall in India in more than a decade, exacerbated forest fires in Indonesia, sending toxic smoke into neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, and threatened sugar and coffee production in Brazil.

JMA's forecast comes a day after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its latest seasonal forecast that El Nino will be the most intense ever.

The agency predicts there is a 100% chance that El Niño will persist into the Northern Hemisphere winter; This coincides with the US Climate Prediction Center's prediction that these weather events will last until January-March.

Many record temperature years, including 1998, 2010, 2016, 2023, and 2024, followed or developed concurrently with major El Niño events.