{"id":261780,"date":"2026-05-07T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:27:14","slug":"the-upcoming-el-nino-could-rival-strongest-in-history-heres-what-it-means-for-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261780\/","title":{"rendered":"The upcoming El Ni\u00f1o could rival strongest in history. Here\u2019s what it means for Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Since last year, it has looked likely El Ni\u00f1o would arrive by the summer of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Latest climate models col continue to double down that the upcoming El Ni\u00f1o could be among the strongest on recorded history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">In the modern era, since 1950, the strongest El Ni\u00f1o reached 2.5\u00b0 Celsius above normal. That anomaly is from recording the sea surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific off of the coast of Peru. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">To be considered an El Ni\u00f1o, the anomaly must grow to .5\u00b0 Celsius or greater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Going back to the late 1800s, the strongest becomes the El Ni\u00f1o of 1877 which was 2.7\u00b0 Celsius above normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">The latest European ensembles depict a real chance of eclipsing the El Ni\u00f1o from the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>ECMWF ENSO forecast (May 1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Each red line represents a model member of the European ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Since last year, it has looked likely El Ni\u00f1o would arrive by the summer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,508],"class_list":["post-261780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}