El Nino is expected 'to break records': top expert
The current El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to break records for its overall strength, a top expert said on July 7, raising concerns about droughts, floods and other extremes linked to the event.
Forecast models are pointing to an "extreme" event, said Tim Stockdale, an El Nino expert at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), an intergovernmental organisation.
Stockdale said this year's El Nino is unlike anything he had seen in more than three decades of tracking the phenomenon.
"I think it's absolutely true to say we've never had a forecast of an El Nino that was so strong and so consistent across [forecast] models," he said in a media briefing.
