El Niño Brings a Flood
Aerial view of Iguazu Falls (Foz de Iguaçu), normal flow, Nov 2005 (photo from Wikimedia)
25 October 2026
Very warm sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, called El Niño, routinely triggers extreme weather events, droughts and floods. This year’s El Niño is now labeled a Super El Niño because of its intensity (dark red on the map).
Still image of the most recent sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly data available (map from NASA Scientific Visualization Studio)
The warm water ends up at the coast of South America, which is always hardest hit. This month El Niño caused a major flood at…
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