Drought-bearing El Nino, whose onset has been declared by various global weather organisations, has a 60 per cent chance of becoming a Super El Nino, the National Weather Service (NWS) of the US weather agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) has said.
Announcing the onset of El Nino — the return of a climate phenomenon that can reshape weather patterns across the globe — the NWS said warming of Pacific Ocean waters is expected to intensify over the course of the year, with a 63 per cent chance of it reaching “very strong” levels by winter.
Forecasters are predicting probabilities of sea surface temperatures (SST) rising over 2°C in the monitored region of the Nino in the Pacific. When that level is reached, NOAA calls it a “very strong” El Nino or su
