In the Pacific Ocean, the natural meteorological phenomenon known as El Niño is already being recorded, seriously changing this area. Recently, American scientists confirmed that El Niño has already started and that, probably, 2024 will be the hottest year in the world.
2024 could be the hottest year
They are even refusing to believe that the world will experience a key warming milestone of 1.5C. The arrival of El Niño would affect the global climate, bring drought to Australia, excess rainfall to the southern US and affect the Indian monsoon.
The phenomenon is expected to end until the following spring, after which its impact will decrease. For now, specialists indicate that El Niño will continue in the Pacific Ocean.
Peak at the end of 2023
“It is rising now, there have been signs in our forecasts for several months, but it really looks like it will peak at the end of this year in terms of intensity,” said Adam Scaife, head of forecasting at the UK Met Office.
“A new record for global temperature next year is definitely plausible. Depends on how big it turns out to be El Niño: a big El Niño at the end of this year, gives a high probability that we will have a new record, the global temperature in 2024″, added the expert.
The three phases of El Niño Southern Oscillation
The El Niño Southern Oscillation has three different phases: warm, cold, or neutral. The hot one, called El Niño, occurs every two to seven years and is when warm waters rise from the surface off the coast of South America and spread throughout the ocean, creating great heat into the atmosphere. So far, 2016 was rated as the hottest year
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said “El Niño conditions are present.”