Europe Is About To Feel The Strongest El Niño Ever Recorded—Here's What To Expect
The Meridian Desk
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06:00 UTC, Monday 31 August — The Equatorial Pacific. A record-breaking El Niño is forming here, thousands of kilometres from Europe, and forecasters now put the odds of it becoming a very strong event this winter at ninety-five per cent — on track to be the strongest ever reliably recorded. Coral drilled from the Galápagos Islands shows recent El Niño events are the most intense in a thousand years, and this one has not yet reached its peak. For Europe the effect arrives not in the tropics but through the North Atlantic storm track and the polar vortex over the Arctic — the machinery that decides whether the coming winter is mild and wet or bitterly cold. Which of those two winters the continent gets is still unresolved, and it turns on a single change, high in the stratosphere, that has not yet happened.
The Meridian Desk tracks the planet from the European side of the map — earthquakes, eruptions, floods, windstorms, heatwaves, and the space weather that lights up northern skies. Every video delivers the data, what Europe's own agencies are saying, and what comes next in twenty to twenty-five minutes.
New videos three to four times a week.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:34 The Record Forming In The Pacific
2:05 What A Thousand Years Of Coral Shows
5:03 The Numbers The Agencies Are Watching
7:46 Why This Reaches Europe At All
10:10 The Winter Being Decided Now
12:18 The Vortex That Decides Everything
15:12 The Current That Keeps Europe Warm
16:56 Why The Speed Matters More Than The Heat
18:26 The Record Set On The Stricter Ruler
19:34 What To Watch Through The Winter
SOURCES
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest — Science — https://www.science.org/content/artic...
El Niño events are becoming stronger as the world warms — CNN — https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/27/climat...
Corals show El Niño intensifying as planet warms — France 24 — https://www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years — phys.org — https://phys.org/news/2026-08-galpago...
Human-Caused Climate Change Is Making El Niño Stronger, Corals Show — Forbes — https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrve...
Ancient Corals Reveal Today's El Niños Are the Strongest in 1,000 Years — Discover — https://www.discovermagazine.com/anci...
El Niño forecast to reach historic strength ahead of winter 2026–27 — The Watchers — https://watchers.news/2026/08/17/el-n...
ENSO forecast — August 2026 Quick Look — IRI, Columbia University — https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis...
Seasonal forecasts — Copernicus Climate Change Service — https://climate.copernicus.eu/seasona...
Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide — Severe Weather Europe — https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-ra...
Polar Vortex Warning Signs Emerge for Winter 2026/2027 as Super El Niño Builds — Severe Weather Europe — https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-ra...
Weather forecast winter 2026/2027: strongest El Niño — Snowplaza — https://www.snowplaza.co.uk/blog/weat...
Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change — Nature Climate Change — https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Rapid warming may tip Atlantic circulation at 2°C, while slower warming may avert collapse — phys.org — https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-a...
The Atlantic Ocean can handle more warming than expected — with one big catch — ScienceDaily — https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
This channel is for education and news analysis. Data comes from public scientific agencies; where something is unconfirmed or speculative, we say so.
#superelnino #polarvortex
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Europe Is About To Feel The Strongest El Niño Ever Recorded—Here's What To Expect
The Meridian Desk
31,303 views
06:00 UTC, Monday 31 August — The Equatorial Pacific. A record-breaking El Niño is forming here, thousands of kilometres from Europe, and forecasters now put the odds of it becoming a very strong event this winter at ninety-five per cent — on track to be the strongest ever reliably recorded. Coral drilled from the Galápagos Islands shows recent El Niño events are the most intense in a thousand years, and this one has not yet reached its peak. For Europe the effect arrives not in the tropics but through the North Atlantic storm track and the polar vortex over the Arctic — the machinery that decides whether the coming winter is mild and wet or bitterly cold. Which of those two winters the continent gets is still unresolved, and it turns on a single change, high in the stratosphere, that has not yet happened.
The Meridian Desk tracks the planet from the European side of the map — earthquakes, eruptions, floods, windstorms, heatwaves, and the space weather that lights up northern skies. Every video delivers the data, what Europe's own agencies are saying, and what comes next in twenty to twenty-five minutes.
New videos three to four times a week.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:34 The Record Forming In The Pacific
2:05 What A Thousand Years Of Coral Shows
5:03 The Numbers The Agencies Are Watching
7:46 Why This Reaches Europe At All
10:10 The Winter Being Decided Now
12:18 The Vortex That Decides Everything
15:12 The Current That Keeps Europe Warm
16:56 Why The Speed Matters More Than The Heat
18:26 The Record Set On The Stricter Ruler
19:34 What To Watch Through The Winter
SOURCES
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest — Science — https://www.science.org/content/artic...
El Niño events are becoming stronger as the world warms — CNN — https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/27/climat...
Corals show El Niño intensifying as planet warms — France 24 — https://www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years — phys.org — https://phys.org/news/2026-08-galpago...
Human-Caused Climate Change Is Making El Niño Stronger, Corals Show — Forbes — https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrve...
Ancient Corals Reveal Today's El Niños Are the Strongest in 1,000 Years — Discover — https://www.discovermagazine.com/anci...
El Niño forecast to reach historic strength ahead of winter 2026–27 — The Watchers — https://watchers.news/2026/08/17/el-n...
ENSO forecast — August 2026 Quick Look — IRI, Columbia University — https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis...
Seasonal forecasts — Copernicus Climate Change Service — https://climate.copernicus.eu/seasona...
Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide — Severe Weather Europe — https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-ra...
Polar Vortex Warning Signs Emerge for Winter 2026/2027 as Super El Niño Builds — Severe Weather Europe — https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-ra...
Weather forecast winter 2026/2027: strongest El Niño — Snowplaza — https://www.snowplaza.co.uk/blog/weat...
Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change — Nature Climate Change — https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
Rapid warming may tip Atlantic circulation at 2°C, while slower warming may avert collapse — phys.org — https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-a...
The Atlantic Ocean can handle more warming than expected — with one big catch — ScienceDaily — https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
This channel is for education and news analysis. Data comes from public scientific agencies; where something is unconfirmed or speculative, we say so.
#superelnino #polarvortex