The El Niño event that is developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory, the Met Office has warned. The powerful natural climate phenomenon pushes up global temperatures and can increase the risks of extreme weather. Added to the effects of human-induced climate change, the Met Office is warning that it is "very likely" to mean 2027 is the hottest year on record.
I'd be worried, if I didn;t remember all the forecasts the Met Office made that didn't materialise....
There is growing evidence that weather patterns around the world are already being affected, with below-average monsoon rains in India and suppressed hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean. El Niño could put the UK at greater risk of a wet, stormy autumn.
Given monsoons and hurricanes kill people, isn't that rather a good thing? And a wet stormy Autumn is a typical season in the UK, isnt it?
"We should be clear that this is an unprecedented event", said Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office. "I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts."
Well, we'll see.
Yeah. Thanks for the warning, now tell us how we should prepare for the "unprecedented event".
ReplyDeleteFewer Atlantic hurricanes? Isn't it only a couple of years ago that we were being told that anthropogenic warble gloaming will cause more of them and more devastating ones at that? Whether the weather be hot or whether the weather be cold, it's all our fault we'll be told.
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