SHA Small Heath Alliance

In layman's terms, what does this weather phenomenon mean?

Are we all doomed?

Liam1965 is your man for this sort of thing

El Niño is a cyclical pattern of warming and cooling over the mid and south Pacific (the cooling phase is called La Niña). Cycles last between a couple of years and a decade.

As El Niño is the warming phase, warming overall global temperatures make it more extreme and unpredictable. Since the Pacific is massive, El Niño has a massive effect on weather patterns in a big chunk of Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, which then has global knock-on effects.

It's a natural climate phenomenon that stems from the Earth's geography, but like all weather and climate patterns, human activity effing with the balance so much over such a tiny sliver of geological time can have a great deal of impact on how powerful and/or disruptive it is.

LondonBlue

In layman's terms, what does this weather phenomenon mean?

Are we all doomed?

That's Fernando Torres?

The net zero stupid brigade are convinced they are right.

I read somewhere the last big one was either directly or indirectly responsible for millions of lives.
This one could see temps in places like Brazil reach seriously dangerous levels or create floods elsewhere.

This is all my interpretation it may be incorrect to those who know better but it does sound pretty worrying listening to meteorologists talking about it.

TonyEvans

The net zero stupid brigade are convinced they are right.

Since those morons are closely related to the "Stop The Boats" brigade, they'll be overjoyed when we start seeing increases in the number of climate migrants.

Cheers Chat.

It's all hot air.