UN warns of 'supersized' El Niño as countries prepare for impact
Image source, Florian Plaucheur/AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, El Niño brought intense flooding and landslides to southern Brazil in 2024ByEsme Stallardsenior climate and science reporterMark Poynting and Becky DaleBBC Verify and Yvette Tan, Tiffanie Turnbull and Nikita YadavThe world has entered a "danger zone of extreme weather" as the impacts of El Niño start to be felt globally, UN head António Guterres has warned."El Niño is a natural weather phenomenon that develops in the Pacific Ocean and is linked to a change in wind patterns.
The WMO - a UN agency - said it has undertaken a "major mobilisation" to try to circulate its forecasts of potential extreme weather events, linked to El Niño, to as many communities as possible.
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