Expert warns 2026 El Niño may rival the strongest on record

03/06/2026 21:18 France 24

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Paul Roundy, Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany, to discuss the upcoming El Niño phenomenon. Citing models, Roundy says that the event “could achieve an amplitude similar to the strongest event known back in the late 1870s”.

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