El Niño 2026

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Super El Niño 2026 Nears Record Strength as NOAA Puts Historic Peak at 83%

The 2026 El Niño has moved to within a tenth of a degree of the strongest event ever recorded, after new data from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put its August-to-October reading at +2.0°C — the second-highest figure for that time of year since records began in 1950. Only the 1997–98 event, widely regarded as the…