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'Very strong' El Niño threshold reached for first time in over 10 years
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Home>Weather News>'Very strong' El Niño threshold reached for first time in over 10 years
The tropical Pacific Ocean is rapidly warming towards a ‘very strong’ El Niño event, with a key monitoring index this week crossing a threshold not reached for more than 10 years.
El Niño was declared by the Bureau of Meteorology in the middle of June this year following four months of persistent warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean, along with a response from the overlying atmosphere. Since then, El Niño has been rapidly gaining strength.
Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires
As El Niño strengthens at an alarming rate, all previous records in the modern era could be smashed. (ABC News)
El Niño is strengthening across the Pacific Ocean at an alarming rate and could annihilate all records in the modern era.
The rapid warming of our largest ocean is supplying additional heat into the Earth's atmosphere, contributing to a summer of extreme heatwaves and fires across Europe and North America.
But with El Niño still months away from peaking, its impact on global weather will intensify through the back half of 2026, including in Australia, raising the prospect of our hottest spring on record and a heightened risk of drought and fires.
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