A global weather phenomenon is coming.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is forecasting an El Niño within the next few months, with a 90 per cent chance that it will carry on into the northern hemisphere winter.
El Niño is an unusual warming in the Pacific Ocean that, coupled with the atmosphere, can cause a rise in the global temperature. It can also affect weather patterns around the world.
“It’s not 100 per cent. Nothing’s 100 per cent,” said Jon Gottschalck, chief of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s climate operational prediction branch. “But right now, most of the observations and model forecasts
