{"id":9018,"date":"2026-04-12T22:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:06:26","slug":"a-super-el-nino-inside-the-weather-phenomenon-that-could-send-temperatures-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/12\/a-super-el-nino-inside-the-weather-phenomenon-that-could-send-temperatures-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018super El Ni\u00f1o?\u2019: Inside the weather phenomenon that could send temperatures soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Climate scientists are monitoring an increasing 62% chance of an El Ni\u00f1o forming in 2026, supported by high subsurface ocean heat and weakening trade winds. While some media outlets warn of a &#8220;Super El Ni\u00f1o,&#8221; experts clarify that &#8220;super&#8221; is not an official scientific term and usually refers to a &#8220;strong&#8221; event, which currently has a one-in-three chance of occurring. El Ni\u00f1o events are predicted to raise global temperatures by 0.1\u00b0C to 0.2\u00b0C. Researchers at Columbia University suggest that while a &#8220;strong&#8221; event so soon after the 2023-2024 cycle would be surprising, global warming may be accelerating the &#8220;recharge&#8221; of ocean heat. Ultimately, experts emphasize that the overall acceleration of ocean surface warming is a more critical concern than the specific frequency of these irregular climate patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 31, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/03\/31\/a-super-el-nino-inside-the-weather-phenomenon-that-could-send-temperatures-soaring\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate scientists are monitoring an increasing 62% chance of an El Ni\u00f1o forming in 2026, supported by high subsurface ocean heat and weakening trade winds. While some media outlets warn of a &#8220;Super El Ni\u00f1o,&#8221; experts clarify that &#8220;super&#8221; is not an official scientific term and usually refers to a &#8220;strong&#8221; event, which currently has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}