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It’s coming. Winds are weakening along the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Heat is building beneath the ocean surface. By July, most forecast models agree that the climate system’s biggest player – El Niño – will return for the first time in nearly four years. El Niño is one side of the…
El Niño warming might not seem like a big deal to surfers hoping to take off the wetsuit. But it can make living in the ocean feel like running a marathon.
El Niño warms a stretch of ocean more than enough to completely reorganize wind, rainfall and temperature patterns all over the planet.
El Niño tends to trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves
El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate marine life.