El Niño Hits Record Strength Weeks Before Expected Peak

Climate-concerned narrative

This Super El Niño has smashed a 170-year record two months before it even peaks, and every model says it keeps climbing. Stacked on top of human-caused warming, that means fiercer floods, deeper droughts and hotter heat waves worldwide. Preparation and forecasting can blunt the damage, but cutting greenhouse gas emissions is the only real fix in what may be the superlative El Niño of the modern era.