The Super El Niño:
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed the formation of a new El Niño in the equatorial Pacific, placing the odds at 63% that it will intensify into a very strong or super El Niño by the northern winter.An El Niño represents the periodic, anomalous warming of sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. While the India Meteorological Department (IMD) classifies a standard El Niño based on temperature departures from the long-term average, a very strong or super El Niño is explicitly defined by a massive temperature departure exceeding 2°C in a specific reference patch of the Pacific.
