Experts have advised precautionary measures to save lives threatened by surging temperatures and disruptive weather events caused by El Niño.
, the 8-year period containing 2016 and 2023 has been the hottest since record-keeping began in 1880.
Despite the fact that El Niño is a natural phenomenon, it can't be viewed in isolation from human-driven climate change. The report also suggested there is a 66% possibility that the annual average near-surface global temperature will, at some point between 2023 and 2027, reach 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels for at least a year.
El Niño events are usually linked to an increase in rainfall and even flooding in parts of the southern U.S., southern South America, the Horn of Africa and Central Asia.
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