Climatologists stated the risk of unpredictable anomalies due to El Niño

Scientists have warned that the combination of global warming and a rare type of El Niño could lead to weather patterns that science cannot accurately model, UzA reports citing the journal Nature.

The current El Niño phenomenon has become the first in almost 30 years, caused by an abnormal warming of the eastern, rather than the central, zone of the Pacific Ocean. This type of climate phenomenon has not been recorded since the late 1990s.

At the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), it was established that in the 2023-2024 season, the warming of the tropical waters of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans disrupted the previous climate connection - teleconnection, as a result of which the southern states of the US did not receive a wet season, and the northern states - a dry one. NCAR senior scientist Clara Deser noted that historical experience can no longer serve as a guide due to the intensification of anthropogenic warming.

Climate scientist at Bar-Ilan University Eran Woz said to Nature that the interaction between warming and El Niño will complicate forecasting and preparation for the consequences. Among the manifestations of the 2023-2024 season, a drought in the Amazon is also noted, which has become the strongest in 120 years for Brazil.