This could be the strongest El Niño on record
This could be the strongest El Niño on record
Global · Published Jul 14, 2026
An early morning pedestrian on a flooded Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles leaps over a puddle on February 3, 1998, during one of the most powerful El Niño events on record.
Multiple models indicate that the 2026-27 El Niño event could be the strongest on record.

In a detailed post at The Climate Brink on Substack, and in summary threads on Bluesky and X, climate scientist Zeke Hausfather (Stripe and Berkeley Earth) paints a stark picture of top-end climate models hurtling into truly uncharted territory – and of El Niño conditions now taking shape even more quickly than the jaw-dropping multi-model forecast.

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