In some respects, climate change makes this El Niño a wild card, since it will occur in a far warmer world than that of 2015-16 and 1997-98 — and especially 1982-83. A study published in January found that the typical impacts of El Niño in 2023-24 were “offset” by the abundance of warm water elsewhere in the global oceans.
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