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‘Godzilla El Nino’: Southeast Asia warned of punishing climate whiplash

South China Morning Post · · 200 words · By Biman Mukherji
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Economic Vulnerability Environmental Risk Management
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2 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific were already rising rapidly in late April, signalling the expected return of El Nino next month, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).”
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Two independent web search results explicitly confirm that the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported rapidly rising sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific in late April, signaling the return of El Niño.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophys…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organizat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Pacific typhoon season is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the western Pacific Ocean. The season runs throughout 2026, though most tropical cyclones typic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Pacific_typhoon_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Geneva,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
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“The weather phenomenon [El Nino] typically brings hotter and drier conditions to Southeast Asia, damaging agriculture, straining water supplies and amplifying the risk of forest fires.”
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While Wikipedia entries confirm the existence of El Niño and its general nature as a global climate phenomenon, the provided evidence snippets do not specifically describe the effects on Southeast Asia (hotter/drier conditions, agricultural damage, or forest fires). The evidence is too general to verify the specific regional impacts mentioned in the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Those variations have an irregular…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between 1990 and 1995, the Pacific Ocean experienced various atmospheric and oceanic features, which were consistent with an El Niño event. Beginning in early 1991, a moderate-to-strong Central Pacif…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990–1995_El_Niño_events
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014–2016 El Niño was the strongest El Niño event on record, with unusually warm waters developing between the coast of South America and the International Date Line. These unusually warm waters i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–2016_El_Niño_event
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