Climatologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this month that the long-anticipated event known as El Ni\u00f1o is officially here and could last until 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Ni\u00f1o is an unusual ocean current characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures around the equator in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to scientists, this phenomenon occurs every two to seven years, killing large numbers of sea creatures and causing noticeable and often severe changes in weather conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is worth mentioning that the last El Ni\u00f1o event occurred between February and August 2019, but its impacts were relatively weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Climatologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this month that the long-anticipated event known as El Ni\u00f1o is officially here and could last until 2024. El Ni\u00f1o is an unusual ocean current characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures around the equator in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. According to scientists, this …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[4950,4951],"class_list":["post-94136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-el-nino-officially-started","tag-scientists-say-el-nino-could-cause-warm-temperatures"],"yoast_head":"\n