From BBC Weather · · 1m 50s
El Niño supercharges extreme weather across the globe
The record-breaking phenomenon is already triggering droughts, floods, heatwaves and intense storms from Indonesia to the Pacific.
In brief
The record-breaking phenomenon is already triggering droughts, floods, heatwaves and intense storms from Indonesia to the Pacific. El Niño is strengthening global weather patterns, causing droughts, floods and heatwaves across Indonesia, India and the United States, and is expected to persist until at least twenty…
Record El Niño strengthens globally
El Niño has been strengthening for several months and is already having significant impact on global weather patterns.
Indonesia's worst wildfire season since 2015
Indonesia is battling its worst wildfire season since two thousand fifteen. Since January, at least eight hundred ninety-five thousand six hundred fifty-seven hectares of land have burned, nearly six times the size of Greater London.
Wildfires cause health crisis in Indonesia
The wildfires have led to school closures and increased hospital admissions. Around one hundred seventy-five thousand people have suffered from respiratory illness, with more than forty thousand cases involving toddlers, ranging from coughs to pneumonia.
Eastern Pacific hurricane season explodes
In the eastern Pacific, there have been twenty-two named storms and twelve hurricanes, including ten major hurricanes.
Hurricane Polo intensifies rapidly
Hurricane Polo experienced rapid intensification, producing wind gusts of one hundred eighty miles per hour, fueled by very warm waters produced by El Niño.
Atlantic hurricane season remains quiet
In contrast, the Atlantic Ocean has remained eerily quiet.El Niño increases wind shear in the north Atlantic, which tears apart storms and limits formation.
India's monsoon rainfall falls short
In India, essential monsoon rainfall has been thirteen percent below average. The east and north-east were around twenty-six percent drier than average and put into exceptional drought. Southern states were twenty-four percent drier than average.
Typhoons intensify in western Pacific
In eastern China and Japan, storms including Maysak and Dujuan have brought widespread floods and landslides.
The headline
El Niño is strengthening global weather patterns, causing droughts, floods and heatwaves across Indonesia, India and the United States, and is expected to persist until at least twenty twenty-seven.
