Great question. For the past couple weeks I've seen a lot of speculation on El Ninõ and recently there was an article claiming that it's "‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching. Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/el-nino-supersizing-before-our-eyes-united-nations 🤷♂️
On Saturday, 2026 set a record for the longest a season has begun without a storm that has reached winds of 74 mph (119 kph) to qualify as a hurricane — at least in the satellite era, said Nick Novella, a meteorologist at the government’s Weather Prediction Center. Before the 1950s there were a few years where no hurricanes were recorded this late in the season, but meteorologists don’t trust those records because ocean monitoring wasn’t complete.
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“It’s really staggering, just how inhospitable the Atlantic is to anything that could form a tropical cyclone right now,” said Kristen Corbosiero, a University at Albany atmospheric science professor. “Anything that tries to form is just getting this triple whammy” of winds that decapitate a storm, dry air that starves it and downward pushing winds that basically stomp it.
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Great question. For the past couple weeks I've seen a lot of speculation on El Ninõ and recently there was an article claiming that it's "‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching. Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/el-nino-supersizing-before-our-eyes-united-nations 🤷♂️
From the article:
Wow. It's almost like climate is variable or something.