UN Warns: El Niño to Bring More Heat and Natural Disasters in Coming Months

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the El Niño climate phenomenon will intensify global warming and bring more extreme weather events in the coming months. Guterres described the situation as adding fuel to an already warming world.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a serious warning about the El Niño climate phenomenon, which threatens to bring unprecedented extreme heat and natural disasters to the world in the coming months.

Guterres described El Niño as a phenomenon that "adds fuel to the fire of an already warming world". According to the UN chief, the world must prepare for far-reaching consequences that will affect different regions across the globe with unprecedented intensity.

El Niño is a natural climate pattern that warms the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean and affects weather conditions across the entire planet — bringing droughts, floods, hurricanes and heat waves. Scientists have already noted that climate change is further amplifying the effects of El Niño.

According to the UN warning, the coming months are particularly critical, as El Niño combined with human-caused climate change could trigger record temperatures and severe natural disasters in many countries. The organisation is calling on nations to strengthen their preparedness and protect the most vulnerable populations.