Shafaqna English– In a stark warning issued on Thursday(3 Sep 2026), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, announced that the ongoing El Niño climate pattern is projected to continue strengthening well into 2027, with the potential to become the most powerful iteration of this phenomenon ever recorded in human history.
This unprecedented intensification carries grave implications for global weather systems, dramatically elevating the likelihood of catastrophic extreme weather events extending well into the next calendar year.
According to the WMO’s latest forecasting models, there exists an almost certain probability—approaching 100%—that El Niño conditions will persist unabated through February 2027, driven primarily by anomalously high sea-surface temperatures across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
The organization emphasized that this marks the very first occasion in its history of monitoring such events that it has publicly expressed such an extraordinarily high degree of scientific confidence regarding the duration and trajectory of an El Niño episode, underscoring the exceptional nature of the current oceanic and atmospheric conditions that are now unfolding.
Source: Reuters