El Niño ceases to exist, Vilfand said

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MOSCOW, June 29 The El Niño phenomenon is ending and moving into a neutral phase, but its consequences will continue to influence global temperatures; June could become one of the hottest for the planet in history meteorological observations, said Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.
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“El Niño ceases to exist, and a transition to a neutral phase occurs. <…> The fact is that the consequences of El Niño, which began in May 2023 and lasted until April 2024, are very significant, it created an amazing effect. The temperature of both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic in the extratropical zones was the maximum for the entire observation period,” the forecaster said.

According to him, now the planet remains warm not because of the El Niño phenomenon, but because of its consequences — elevated temperatures in the temperate latitudes of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

«In May the temperature was as high as possible, although El Niño has already weakened, we’ll see how it will affect the outcome in June. There is a high probability that it will be among the three hottest. This will have an effect for a long time,” the forecaster added.
The El-phenomenon. Niño causes an abnormal increase in surface water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The peculiarity of the change in phases of ocean currents is that during La Niña, heat from the atmosphere intensively goes into the ocean, and during El Niño, the flow goes from the ocean to the atmosphere.