El Niño Settles In: Quiet Atlantic Season, Wetter South Florida Ahead
TL;DR
NOAA and climate models indicate El Niño will strengthen and likely persist into early 2027, dampening Atlantic tropical development via increased wind shear and forecasting a below-average 2026 hurricane season (CSU projects about 9 named storms, 4 hurricanes). For South Florida, the pattern points to a cooler, wetter, and potentially stormier winter driven by a persistent subtropical jetstream, signaling notable contrasts to the prior winter.
- El Niño locks in, with impacts to hurricane season and South Florida weather likely NBC 6 South Florida
- Strong El Niño now a virtual certainty, forecasters say. What it means for California Los Angeles Times
- 'Not a run-of-the-mill El Nino.' Forecasters predict historic strength PBS
- Track how extreme this year’s El Niño could get The Washington Post
- NOAA Raises Odds of a Historic ‘Super’ El Niño Gizmodo
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