GenevaPacific waters may run 3.8C above average by January, the UN weather agency forecasts.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher warns 50 million people could face increased hunger.
That would top the 2.6C record of 2015-2016, and it shifts winds and rainfall, bringing drought to some regions and floods to others.
Fletcher released $50 million for 11 countries and called the next two weeks the critical window to act.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 200+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- EXPRESS leans critical
- quotes Monahan that the surge could equal four to five decades of sea-level rise in one season, with high water expected to exceed the normal 52-day level for up to half of all high tides
- Aol
- ties the El Niño to a record marine heatwave off California and tracks exotic species sightings, including a first-ever longfinned bigeye caught off Venice Pier
- News18
- quotes Saulo's 'off the monitoring charts' remark and gives the WMO's 3.8°C Nov-Jan forecast anomaly, with impacts lasting 'long after' the peak
- Dawn leans critical
- pairs Saulo with UN aid chief Fletcher's 'wrecking ball' framing and calls for anticipatory action, stressing that human impacts will last into 2027