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The Latest Breaking News from El Niño

Odds are increasing for the return of El Niño. Here's what that could mean for California

LOS ANGELES — The stubborn La Niña climate pattern that gripped the tropical Pacific for a rare three years in a row is waning, and the odds of an El Niño system forming later this year are getting stronger, according to recent meteorological reports.

Los Angeles Times

A planet-warming El Niño is on the horizon

If an El Niño develops, an annual temperature record becomes likely soon after.

Axios

La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle – here's how it affected weather around the world

It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its warmest – they called it El Niño de Navidad, the…

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Why El Niño doesn't mean certain drought

The Bureau of Meteorology released its latest climate driver update on Tuesday, saying the current La Niña has weakened and is “likely near its end”. Most climate models now point to neutral conditions – neither El Niño nor La Niña – through autumn and a trend towards El Niño in…

The Conversation

Stronger El Niño events may speed up irreversible melting of Antarctic ice, research finds

New study shows impact of weather phenomenon could have a ‘double whammy’ effect, leading to worsening extreme weather and accelerating sea level rise

The Guardian - AU

La Niña’s Hotter Twin El Niño Is Predicted To Appear This Year With XXXtreme Heat Bushfires

A hot new bombshell enters the villa.

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Bureau of Meteorology considering change to El Niño and La Niña definitions

The Bureau of Meteorology is in discussions with international atmospheric agencies to overhaul how La Niña and El Niño are defined, potentially rewriting the record books of global weather history.

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Millions of satellite images reveal how beaches around the Pacific vanish or replenish in El Niño and La Niña years

If you’ve been visiting the same beach for a few summers, you’ll have seen it change. While beaches look static, they’re actually one of the most dynamic regions on Earth. Winds, waves and tides stir and push sand around constantly. Storms can claw out huge volumes of sand and move…

The Conversation

Famous Australian beaches vulnerable to severe coastal erosion caused by La Niña

Researchers say erosion of beaches along south-east coast – including at tourist hotspot Noosa – is significantly affecting local biodiversity

The Guardian - AU

UK weather: Met Office says La Niña in the Pacific could bring stormy end to winter

It looks like there'll be no Beast from East from a reverse polar vortex this year

Bristol Post

An even colder winter ahead thanks to return of El Niño in 2023

A frosty 2023-24 winter season is likely if El Niño ramps up

Wales Online

Four possible consequences of El Niño returning in 2023

Every two to seven years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean gets up to 3°C warmer (what we know as an El Niño event) or colder (La Niña) than usual, triggering a cascade of effects felt around the world. This cycle is called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) because every El…

The Conversation

'Dry' California got big rains. Was it really an epic weather forecasting fail?

For decades, two climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean have loomed large in predicting weather in California and other parts of the globe. El Niño — a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific — seemed synonymous with wet winters for Southern California, while La Niña was a heralder…

Los Angeles Times

After the flood: what an El Niño might mean for Australia’s ecosystems

Scientists are fearing the worst, predicting dangerous bushfire weather, fiercer heatwaves and severe coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef

The Guardian - AU

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Mark Gongloff: The coming El Niño could be a glimpse of a grim future

Thanks to El Niño, the world is about to experience something like time travel to the year 2050. It won’t be pleasant. But rather than devolve into panic at the grim climate future it portends, we should use it as a warning about the need to do more to slow…

The Guardian - UK

Could the return of El Niño in 2023 take us above 1.5C of warming? – podcast

Scientists have predicted the return of the El Niño climate phenomenon later this year. Its arrival will result in even higher global temperatures and supercharged extreme weather events. Ian Sample speaks to environment editor Damian Carrington about what we can expect from El Niño and whether we’re prepared

The Conversation

From floods to fire? A climate scientist on the chances El Niño will hit Australia this year

After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia and across north and central Queensland.

ABC News

Ongoing flood threat to most of Australia shows La Niña weakening but not yet finished

Australia remains in the grip of wet weather as the La Niña pattern lingers, but early forecasts predicting a rapid shift to El Niño are premature writes ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders.

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: China population falls for first time in more than 60 years

Shift marks start of a long period of population decline as China wrestles with demographic time bomb. Plus, Adidas denies revolutionary plan over Cambodia working conditions

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: AI use by students grows, El Niño heatwaves warning, Nepal crash black boxes found

In today’s newsletter: an Australian lecturer says she detected computer-generated text in a fifth of assessments. Plus: the dark side of ‘lucky girl syndrome’

The Guardian - UK

Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023

Scientists say phenomenon coupled with growing climate crisis likely to push global temperatures ‘off the chart’

ABC News

La Niña is rapidly easing, the BOM says. But the prospect of El Niño has some worried. So what's next?

La Niña's three-year grip as the prevailing climate driver for Australia's east coast could finally be over. But the prospect of an El Niño has some worried. Here's what we know.

ABC News

Fears drought could follow floods as BOM forecasts chance of El Niño arriving off back of La Niña

The Bureau of Meteorology says there is a 40 per cent chance a warm and dry El Niño pattern will immediately follow the current La Niña should it recede in autumn, putting farmers on edge.

Pedestrian.tv

After 3 Years Of La Niña, The Hottest, Driest El Niño On Record Could Be On Its Way This Year

Australia's climate could swing from three consecutive La Niñas to the hottest and driest El Niño on record in 2023 and this is terrifying.

The New Daily

El Niño or not? This is the outlook for 2023

Australia has had one of the wettest springs on record as the country has endured its third consecutive La Niña event.

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