The incoming El Niño is now officially the strongest ever recorded, says Met Office – and it hasn’t even peaked yet

The El Niño developing in the Pacific has now gone past every previous record, according to the Met Office, and forecasters say it could mean a wetter, stormier few months ahead for the UK

ers at the Met Office reckoned sea temperatures in the Pacific were on their way to levels that had never been seen before, and that it might even end up being the biggest El Niño since the 1800s.Now, it looks like that’s actually happ

ened. According to the Met Office’s latest up

date, sea surface temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific have gone past anything recorded during a previous El Niño, which will make this the strongest event in the observational record – and it hasn’t even peaked yet.’The enormity of this El Niño’The Met

Office’s head of long range prediction, Professor Adam Scaife, said they’d been “signalling for months” that this was going to be an unprecedented event – and it turns out to be true.”The fact that it has already exceeded

previous records – with several …….