The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization say El Niño is present in the tropical Pacific and will rapidly intensify to a strong level 3 between July and September, raising the odds of heatwaves, droughts, heavy rains and marine heatwaves worldwide.Forecast models show sea surface temperature anomalies in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific may exceed 2°C, and experts say the event will persist through the boreal autumn months, amplifying climate pressures created by the 2023–2024 El Niño episode that produced the hottest years on record.Celeste Saulo of the World Meteorological Organization urges governments, utilities and farmers to accelerate preparedness as forecasts point to regionally varied impacts including drier conditions in parts of the Indian Ocean, the Indian subcontinent and much of
Australia, wetter conditions in parts of southern Europe and the southwestern
USA, and above-normal equatorial Atlantic temperatures.