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'One of the strongest since 1950': What is El Niño and why does it matter?

Forecasters say a newly formed El Niño could become one of the strongest on record since 1950. The climate pattern can influence temperatures, storms, droughts and floods worldwide, with impacts varying from region to region.

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00:18we know that the ocean what we call the ocean heat content or ocean temperatures for the surface
00:23below when those are those are when those are strongly positive and consistent and across the
00:28whole base and we know that's a pretty strong precursor to an El Nino event
00:47it's checking a lot of the boxes even at this earlier time or you know forecastly you know things
00:52could always change but right now the um it's checking all the boxes for it evolving into
00:57being one you know one of the historically strong events um since 1950.
01:24El Nino alters the climate and weather around the world it changes the probability of hurricanes of
01:31typhoons it changes the probability of drought and flood in a number of parts of the world of heat
01:37waves and it even alters the globally average temperature
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