{"id":217683,"date":"2026-05-02T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217683\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:26:08","slug":"super-el-nino-could-lead-to-hottest-year-ever-with-nyc-to-be-pounded-by-scorching-temps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217683\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super El Ni\u00f1o&#8217; could lead to hottest year ever with NYC to be pounded by scorching temps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer could be one of the hottest on record \u2014 with a one-in-four chance of a \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o\u201d turbocharging temperatures in New York and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>El Ni\u00f1o is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which warming Pacific Ocean surface waters disrupt weather patterns worldwide \u2014 driving higher temperatures, more severe storms, and a more active Atlantic hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 62% chance of El Ni\u00f1o forming from June to August and then lasting through the end of the year, according to a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/lanina\/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Climate Prediction Center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39261145\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2024-second-straight-day-hot-126791371.jpg\" alt=\"man drinks and has towel over his head\" class=\"wp-image-39261145\"  \/>This summer could be among the hottest on record, thanks to an El Nino. AP<\/p>\n<p>There is a 25% chance the El Ni\u00f1o will be \u201cvery strong\u201d \u2014 giving it the title \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o,\u201d the center said.<\/p>\n<p>To be qualified as a \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o,\u201d water temps need to rise at least 4 degrees higher than average \u2014 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/potential-tropical-development-eastern-pacific-hurricane-season-may-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fox Weather reporting<\/a> sea surface temps are already 2 to 3 degrees higher than average in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>New York will be steamier this summer as El Ni\u00f1o conditions intensify globally, with Big Apple residents expected to be sweating through more 90-degree days than usual, meteorologists predict.<\/p>\n<p>Gotham could sweat through as many as 22 days over 90 degrees this summer \u2014 last year there were only 14 such days \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-forecasts\/summer-forecast-2026-heat-severe-storms-to-shape-the-season-as-el-ni%C3%B1o-develops-strengthens\/1884851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to AccuWeather.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39261164\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/crop-39261143_98bcd3.jpg\" alt=\"man pours water on his head\" class=\"wp-image-39261164\"  \/>An El Nino is predicted to bring soaring temperatures. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>That would still fall short of the all-time record set in 2010, when the city endured 34 scorching days above 90 degrees. Since 2011, New York has averaged 18 days over 90 degrees annually.<\/p>\n<p>The warning signs are already here. An<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/15\/us-news\/nyc-expected-to-shatter-85-year-old-record-with-steamy-spring-heat-forecasters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 85-year-old heat record<\/a> was shattered last month when Central Park hit 90 degrees on April 15 \u2014 the hottest April day since 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia climatologist Dr. James Hansen predicted in a new paper that \u201c2026 will be the warmest year in the period of instrumental temperature measurements\u201d \u2014 eclipsing 2024 as the hottest year ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, 2027 will be still hotter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The last \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o\u201d was in 2015-2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This summer could be one of the hottest on record \u2014 with a one-in-four chance of a \u201csuper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85856,4588,57,9,24,55,54,56,58,133],"class_list":["post-217683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-el-nino","tag-heat-wave","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}