{"id":61292,"date":"2026-09-22T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/developing-el-nino-becomes-strongest-on-record-weeks-before-expected-peak\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:06:40","slug":"developing-el-nino-becomes-strongest-on-record-weeks-before-expected-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/developing-el-nino-becomes-strongest-on-record-weeks-before-expected-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing El Ni\u00f1o becomes strongest on record weeks before expected peak"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The UK is thousands of miles from the tropical Pacific and so the effects of El Ni\u00f1o tend to be less clear-cut than in other regions.<\/p>\n

However, it does bring the increased chance of wet and stormy conditions across north-west Europe during the late autumn and early winter.<\/p>\n

A forecast released by the Met Office this autumn<\/a> stated that there were already “signals for increased rainfall and storminess in autumn here in the UK”, especially into November and December.<\/p>\n

The winter of 2015 and 2016, which coincided with a very strong El Ni\u00f1o, brought a succession of major storms delivering what experts at the time described as the most extreme flooding on record.<\/p>\n

In addition to storminess, El Ni\u00f1o can also be associated with UK cold spells in the late winter – but the link is not a strong one and the past evidence is mixed.<\/p>\n

The so-called Big Freeze of winter 2009\/2010 was, at the time, the coldest in three decades – and this coincided with an El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

However, 2006\/2007 was also an El Ni\u00f1o winter and that was unseasonably warm.<\/p>\n

As this unprecedented El Ni\u00f1o approaches its likely peak towards the end of 2026, scientists will continue to monitor its development – and its impact on weather around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The UK is thousands of miles from the tropical Pacific and so the effects of El Ni\u00f1o tend to be less clear-cut than in other regions. However, it does bring the increased chance of wet and stormy conditions across north-west Europe during the late autumn and early winter. A forecast released by the Met Office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[16836,321,3878,5829,1061,13161,762],"class_list":["post-61292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-developing","tag-expected","tag-nino","tag-peak","tag-record","tag-strongest","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61294,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61292\/revisions\/61294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}