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  • We've been on and off with water service because of it, we've got a bit of rain the last few days but the resovoirs in Puerto Rico were looking real skinny last week. Nothing humbles you like coming inside from doing yard work in the August Caribbean sunshine to realize your shower isn't running. RIP to my tomatos.
    by boredumb
  • We're expecting a dry and hot spring and summer this year in Australia (and our winter has been milder than average to boot). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nsw-el-nino-weather-e...
    by martyvis
  • I really tried to get through this. But sentences like this were confusing to me:

       In simple terms, the ocean surface anomalies are just the surface footprint of this massive subsurface warm core.
    by xrd
  • Meanwhile West Antarctic ice shelf barely clutching on.

    No direct link, but click the "anomaly" map button just underneath the map. Hello all these similar 10+ °C anomalies that have sat around. Some colder spots too that have hung around! But yikes. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

    by jauntywundrkind
  • I found myself moved by this recent interview with Prof. Kevin Anderson on the topic of climate change (and associated politics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFos_T7cT0

    He paints quite a bleak picture of the situation we are in (I tend to agree), but there's also a glimmer of hope in there.

    by Chris660
  • People really don’t appreciate yet. How really bad this situation is and will be. They’re talking about 1.76°C higher temperatures next year because of this El Niño. Those are climate change temperatures that are not supposed to be around until 2035. So it’ll give us a sneak peek into our future.

    But the biggest effect and this is noted by many insurance companies now is going to be in places like India.

    But this is something the world has never seen and I mean that literally so I don’t expect it to be anything but really bad and you should be ready.

    by Noaidi
  • Remember that this is just a piece of the complex system that is the global climate. And over it, there are more systems affected, including human ones like food production or economy. Something this extreme may cause from a severe disruption or a permanent instability in those systems, specially considering feedback loops in all of them.
    by gmuslera
  • The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...

    by izend

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