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Met Office: El Niño Set to Be Strongest in Century

Published 21 August 2026

Britain's national weather agency has warned that the developing El Niño climate pattern is on track to become the strongest in more than a century, with forecasters predicting it will trigger severe droughts in parts of the tropics and a wet, stormy autumn for the United Kingdom.

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