It remains to be seen what this will mean for the world’s weather over the next 12 to 18 months, but climate scientists say El Ni\u00f1o’s effects on global temperatures will increase the chances that 2026 could be the warmest year on record, and make it likely that 2027 will be the warmest.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile,\u00a0world leaders have expressed concern\u00a0about the prospect of droughts, heavy rainfall events and heat waves. (It’s worth noting, however, that not all El Ni\u00f1o effects are sinister. The climate pattern is widely expected to\u00a0tame the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane season.)<\/p>\n
Economy:\u00a0<\/strong>‘Super El Nin\u0303o’ will have an alarming financial impact, experts fear<\/p>\n El Ni\u00f1o impacts are already being felt in the U.S., suppressing Atlantic hurricane activity and bringing unusual heat and humidity to parts of California, one of the states most vulnerable to El Ni\u00f1o’s impacts.<\/p>\n Sea surface temperatures already have crossed the threshold that typically marks a very strong event, Hausfather and Robert Rohde, his colleague at Berkeley Earth, wrote in\u00a0a monthly climate briefing on July 23.<\/p>\n The warming trajectory of sea surface temperatures in the El Ni\u00f1o region along the equator has been “remarkable,” developing faster than the 1997-98 El Ni\u00f1o, Hausfather wrote in the earlier post.<\/p>\n NOAA data shows water temperatures in the region have never run this hot in July in the modern record.<\/p>\n