The current El Niño event is the strongest in living memory and is expected to have severe impacts on global food security.

“I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts.” —Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office. #climateDiary Although any El Niño is part of an oscillation each one is acting on increasing background heating. “Earlier this month, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that El Niño could threaten tens of millions of people in at-risk countries with crisis-level acute food insecurity.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c3ekg93vjz9o

“I have never seen an El Niño signal this intense in our forecasts.” Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office, warns that the El Niño weather event that is developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c3ekg93vjz9o #elnino #weather #climatechange