El Niño’s impacts on the UK are hard to predict but we should be prepared · Alec Luhn
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A PLANET-WARMING El Niño has just begun in the tropical Pacific, and it is likely to bring cooler, wetter weather to the southern US and hotter, dryer weather to much of South America, Africa and Asia, raising risk of wildfire and drought. trade winds weaken, allowing the warm water they had piled up in the western Pacific to wash back across the central and eastern Pacific. This swathe of warm water heats the atmosphere and weakens the winds further in a feedback loop. Several weather services have declared that El Niño has started, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it’s likely to become a very strong or “super” El Niño, which could unleash even more extreme weather. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第270卷 第3601期 · 2026年6月27日,Alec Luhn。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。