Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

dgellow 153 points 93 comments August 15, 2026
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WarOnPrivacy

In the plus column, we've had a healthy rainy season in the SE US. And while storms seem to move slower than before, we're not yet overwhelmed by stall+flood events.

Noaidi

People really don’t appreciate yet. How really bad this situation is and will be. They’re talking about 1.76°C higher temperatures next year because of this El Niño. Those are climate change temperatures that are not supposed to be around until 2035. So it’ll give us a sneak peek into our future. But the biggest effect and this is noted by many insurance companies now is going to be in places like India. But this is something the world has never seen and I mean that literally so I don’t expect it to be anything but really bad and you should be ready.

gmuslera

Remember that this is just a piece of the complex system that is the global climate. And over it, there are more systems affected, including human ones like food production or economy. Something this extreme may cause from a severe disruption or a permanent instability in those systems, specially considering feedback loops in all of them.

bamboozled

All we needed to do was stop burning fossil fuels we really are fucking dense.

bix6

Great write up but bummed to not see any info about the waves. It’s been a bonkers summer!

jauntywundrkind

Meanwhile West Antarctic ice shelf barely clutching on. No direct link, but click the "anomaly" map button just underneath the map. Hello all these similar 10+ °C anomalies that have sat around. Some colder spots too that have hung around! But yikes. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

izend

The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...

chasd00

Looking forward to Fall rain in North Texas. Summer can’t get over soon enough.

xrd

I really tried to get through this. But sentences like this were confusing to me: In simple terms, the ocean surface anomalies are just the surface footprint of this massive subsurface warm core.

martyvis

We're expecting a dry and hot spring and summer this year in Australia (and our winter has been milder than average to boot). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nsw-el-nino-weather-e...

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