“Super” El Niño is a No-Go: In More Ways than One

MLive Corrects the "Super El Niño" Narrative—NOAA Doesn't Actually Use That Term, plus it looks to be fizzling One of the more refreshing weather articles to appear recently comes not from a climate blog but from MLive, where meteorologist Mark Torregrossa points out something that has largely disappeared amid sensational headlines, like Godzilla Super El Niño and other ridiculous headlines

"There is no such thing as a Super El Niño. NOAA ranks El Niño and has the official categories of weak, m...

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10 Comments
Bob Weber
June 26, 2026 6:08 am

Thank Jim Hansen for the Super Duper designation.

strativarius
Reply to  Bob Weber
June 26, 2026 6:42 am

I think it would be more alarming had they settled on something like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as an umbrella term.

This el Nino is Supercalifragilistic and could become even more expialidocious as the year progresses…

Reply to  strativarius
June 26, 2026 9:33 am

Of course in Ireland, the weather has changed from ‘a wee bit moist’ to ‘a tad warm, for the time of year’
Oh. No. Its now a mass of thunderstorms. Oh well. I expect ‘Thor is having a craic’

strativarius
June 26, 2026 6:30 am

The Friday funny – Post Resignation Edition

Pass the popcorn…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yhL-ny5pZ8Q

Scissor
Reply to  strativarius
June 26, 2026 8:02 am

No evidence of butter or salt. Plenty of Starmer germs though.

No thank you.

June 26, 2026 6:55 am

“A cowpie by any other name would smell as sweet.”

— famous line from the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet . . . or something like that.

strativarius
Reply to  ToldYouSo
June 26, 2026 7:42 am

Desperate Dan? He loved cow pie.

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Denis
June 26, 2026 8:59 am

The meteorologist’s goal is to provide the most correct information available. The media’s goal is to get the most clicks on what they write. Very different goals, very different writing.

ResourceGuy
June 26, 2026 11:37 am

No godzilla el Nino? No super el Nino? We now return you to your regular programming of drought, heat wave, and pestilence scare tactics.

Edward Katz
June 26, 2026 2:18 pm

Naturally the alarmists would jump at the chance to make a big issue out of the possibility—note, just the possibility—that the next El Nino would be stronger than usual. So this gives them the chance to claim that more severe weather events are a virtual guarantee brought on by excessive fossil fuels and any other human activity that they find convenient to denounce. So in the end what we’re really seeing is yet another example of why increasing numbers of the global population scoffs at these climate predictions, then promptly ignores them.