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15 August 2026

More nor’easters. West Coast landslides. Raging wildfires. Here’s how El Niño could hijack the world’s weather this year.

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More nor’easters. West Coast landslides. Raging wildfires. Here’s how El Niño could hijack the world’s weather this year.

We are now entering an El Niño event unlike anything seen in centuries, according to record books dating back to the 1700s and tree ring proxy data dating back more than a thousand years.

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