Off-topic for this publication: a weather forecast on the 2026 'Super El Niño'

Editorial note: this source is a long-range meteorology forecast from severe-weather.eu and has no connection to cybersecurity, software, or technology. It contains no security, privacy, AI, or infrastructure angle, so it does not fit our beat and should be dropped from the queue rather than published. I’m summarizing it for triage only.

On its own terms, the piece argues that an El Niño building in the tropical Pacific for 2026/2027 is intensifying fast enough to reach ‘Super’ status — a rare tier that shows up roughly once a decade. The author attributes the rapid growth to two reinforcing drivers: record-strength westerly wind anomalies across the equatorial Pacific (described as the strongest two-month average in an 86-year ERA5 record), and a strong downwelling Kelvin Wave carrying subsurface heat eastward, with anomalies cited above 9°C at depth and over 5°C at the surface. Long-range models keep revising the projected peak upward, reportedly outpacing the 2015–2016 event in both speed and strength.

The forecast’s practical claim is about winter circulation: a Super El Niño would deepen the Pacific trough and build a Canadian ridge, steering an active storm track across the southern United States while leaving northern areas milder, with knock-on effects for Canada and Europe. None of this is verifiable or reviewable from within our editorial scope, and it should be routed to a weather/climate outlet, not summarized as tech news.