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“El Nino sets temperature record in key Pacific zone: EU monitor PARIS – An intensifying El Nino broke a temperature record in a key zone of the Pacific in September, the EU’s climate monitor said on Oct 12, in another sign the weather pattern is gaining…”

“An intensifying El Nino broke a temperature record in a key zone of the Pacific in September, the EU’s climate monitor said on Monday (October 12, 2026), in another sign the weather pattern is gaining exceptional strength.”

“The El Niño currently heating up the planet burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon on Monday, several months before its expected peak.”

“Here's where Climate change is worsening the impacts of El Niño and leading to extreme weather impacts This year's powerful El Niño and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to…”

“The record global heat caused by this year’s powerful “super El Nino” could cause nearly half a million excess deaths worldwide by early next year, according to a report (PDF) published by the global research collaboration, Climate Impact Lab, on Wednesday.”

“El Niño and climate change 'load the dice' As the world continues to emit record amounts of fossil fuels, and temperatures rise, research has suggested the natural swings between La Niña and El Niño are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.”

“El Niño is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon defined by warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific, a pattern that disrupts weather patterns around the world.”

“A study published recently in the journal Science examines temperature data from more than 900 years of coral records from the Galápagos and suggests that El Niños have become much stronger since people started warming the planet through fossil fuel emissions.”

“El Niño turbocharges warming The world's ocean temperatures also hit a record high in August, with scientists predicting the water would continue to get hotter until an El Niño weather pattern reached its peak.”

“… measured WASHINGTON — Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service…”

“Global temperatures hit record highs as El Niño strengthens: Report August global temperatures surpassed highs set in 2023, 2024.”

“… warm conditions Scientists have warned that this year's 'Super El Niño' has already smashed historical temperature records, months before reaching its peak Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather said: ‘This year's El Niño continues its climb into uncharted…”

“El Nino ‘strengthening rapidly’ “Sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific are forecast to increase to record levels during October-November-December 2026, reflecting the strengthening of the El Nino event which will drive weather…”

“Every day since June 11, temperatures of at least 20C have been recorded at least somewhere in Britain.”

“- Published Temperatures are set to drop across the UK during the week ahead, bringing an end to a run of warmer-than-average autumn weather.”

“The highest game-time temperature ever recorded at Dodger Stadium is 103 degrees (39 degrees Celsius) twice.”

“The highest game-time temperature ever recorded at Dodger Stadium is 103 degrees (39 degrees Celsius) twice.”

“…Guardian, Kebede called on the government to roll out a mass retrofitting programme to ensure schools – which he said had been built “for a different climate” – were better equipped to deal with extreme heat ahead of next summer’s El Niño-charged…”

“While El Niño doesn't directly affect British weather, experts say warm ocean temperatures in the Pacific send 'waves' rippling through the atmosphere.”

“Experts have warned that a potentially historic El Niño is brewing, with the power to unleash extreme weather around the world.”

“Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Nino ECUADOR – Fishermen along Latin America’s Pacific coast are reeling in half-empty nets as ocean warming aggravated by El Nino causes tuna, anchovies and other top catches to migrate to cooler waters.”

““El Nino doesn’t always lead to drought … [but it does] tend to bring elevated heat … [and] push the average temperature then above and beyond a typical summer.”

“Australia had its second hottest September on record last month as global heating and a strengthening El Niño combined to break a string of heat records around the country.”

“This year, they’re also influenced by an ongoing marine heatwave that, in turn, is driving a strong El Niño – a year of above-average surface-water temperature in the Pacific Ocean.”

“This year, temperature records have already been broken in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific, with daily sea surface temperatures now exceeding the previous record set during the very strong El Niño of 2015.”

“El Niño event is set to hit the capital this winter, on the back of a record setting dry and hot summer.”

“Surface air temperatures in western Europe from June to August were 2.5C above the recent decadal average, according to an update from the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service on Friday, while milder but still deadly heat across the rest of the…”

“Elsewhere in the UK, the record-breaking rainfall caused severe flooding across Lancashire and Cumbria, affecting around 5,200 homes.”

“This summer was the nation's warmest on record and temperatures have remained high in September, with high pressure the cause of this week's heat, according to the Met Office.”

“Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.”

“Now, after smashing its previous temperature record months before its expected peak, we're getting a forecast of the potential human toll.”

“Extreme weather events are set to worsen with a strengthening El Nino cycle that has already tied a record for intensity, months from its peak.”

“Though 2026 seems likely to set a new global temperature record (and 2027, as El Niño gathers steam, is almost certain to break it), and though the planet has careened from one climate disaster to another (European heatwaves that killed tens of thousands, a…”

“The female olive ridley has made history with nests documented in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach, according to NOAA Fisheries, which says it is the first documented olive ridley nest ever recorded on the West Coast.”

“While still months away from reaching its peak, the super El Niño is already shattering temperature records.”

“BANTEN, Indonesia (AP) — All signs are pointing toward a record-breaking El Nino this year, which experts say may cause severe drought in Asia and other extreme weather across the world, threatening food security for millions of people.”

“All signs are pointing toward a record-breaking El Nino this year, which experts say may cause severe drought in Asia and other extreme weather across the world, threatening food security for millions of people.”

“Climate experts have said El Niño will likely combine with climate change to push global temperatures to record highs in 2027.”

“This is some way off the UK's September temperature record, though, which stands at 35.6C, set in 1906 at Bawtry in South Yorkshire.”

“By July 25, the UK had already recorded more days above 30C than during the whole of summer 1976, when the temperature exceeded that level on 22 days.”

“Data from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released on September 14, 2026, shows El Nino has breached the temperature rise threshold of 2C (3.6F), thus becoming “very strong”, informally known as a super El Nino.”

“Using newly available district-level data on production, the authors compared that to rainfall and temperature data.”

“El Niño has severely affected Central America and northern parts of South America, where nine countries have experienced their hottest June-August period on record this year.”

“El Ninos are considered strong if the surface temperature of the water off the west coast of South America is more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above average.”

“Researchers are concerned that current record-setting ocean temperatures, intensified by the strengthening El Niño, will further harm corals.”

“The escalating storm activity comes as the UN warns that this year’s El Niño is forecast to become the strongest on record in four decades.”

“In 2024, Hong Kong’s hottest year on record since 1884 saw 52 very hot days (33 degrees Celsius or higher) and just two extremely hot days (35 degrees or higher); the highest temperature hit that year was 35.7 degrees in September.”

“Data from the Bureau of Meteorology show Falls Creek and Mount Hotham had their wettest winters in more than 30 years but, together with Mount Buller, they also had their warmest winters on record for average maximum and minimum temperatures.”

“Summer heat is due to arrive early across much of eastern Australia with potentially record early September temperatures predicted for Brisbane and Sydney, while snow was expected in southern New South Wales.”

“- Published The world's oceans hit their hottest ever recorded temperatures for July, partly fuelled by developing El Niño conditions in the Pacific, according to the EU's climate monitoring service.”

“The fifth heat wave since May is set to scorch western Europe beginning Tuesday, with parts of Spain, France and Italy nearing 40 C before the heat dome pushes temperatures further above average in central and northern Europe.”