How to Use El Niño in a Sentence

El Niño

noun

• El Nino acts to heat up the planet, and could make 2027 the hottest year on record.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
• The effects of El Nino are felt differently around the world, says Roundy.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
• And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El Nino will reach superstrength.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
• This could be exacerbated in 2026 with a strong El Nino.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• Forecasters caution that El Nino predictions tend to be less accurate at this time of year and could change in the coming months.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
• If El Nino forms, its potential strength remains highly uncertain.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
• However, Ehsan’s team forecasts that this El Nino will peak a month or two earlier based on strong early signs from recent weeks.
  — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
• Sentian warns that the frequency of Super El Nino could double over the coming century, thanks to climate change.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 28 May 2026
• El Nino typically occurs every two to seven years and lasts around nine to 12 months, WMO said.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• The team predicts that total economic losses from El Nino this century could reach $84 trillion.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 28 May 2026
• Berardelli said an El Nino event essentially redistributes heat on Earth.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• The excess heat brought to the surface by El Nino, combined with the planet's warming due to climate change, will lead to record-breaking global warmth, Swain said.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• The intensity of any upcoming El Nino will play a major role in whether global temperature records could be challenged in the near future.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
• The intensity of the developing El Nino will play a major role in whether global temperature records could be challenged in the near future.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
• El Nino is a cyclical and natural warming of patches of the equatorial Pacific that then alters the world’s weather patterns.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• El Nino has been somewhat more frequent than La Nina in past observations, but both phases vary in timing and intensity from one cycle to the next.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
• El Nino has been somewhat more frequent than La Nina in past observations, but both phases vary in timing and intensity from one cycle to the next.
  — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• Currently, the subsurface heat in the Pacific is moving east across the ocean and ascending to the surface from the deep waters, the initial stages of El Nino.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026
• However, with El Nino conditions expected to return in the coming months, global temperature records could be challenged again.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
• The Climate Prediction Center recently issued an El Nino watch.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
• Usually a warm El Nino spikes temperatures and its cool La Nina flip side depresses temperatures.
  — Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Above-average temperatures could be on the books this summer, according to forecasters, and a developing El Nino event could spell out warmer weather later in the year or next summer.
  — ABC News, 8 June 2026
• However, the return of El Nino means global temperature records could be challenged again in the near future, depending on its peak intensity and duration.
  — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• El Nino, La Niña's counterpart, has the opposite effect, making conditions drier than normal.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Dec. 2025
• Even so, El Nino is only one of several important variables which influence tropical activity.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
• Even so, El Nino is only one of several important variables which influence tropical activity.
  — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• There is usually a delay between the onset of El Nino and its peak impacts on global temperatures, NOAA says.
  — Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
• There is usually a delay between the onset of El Nino and its peak impacts on global temperatures, NOAA says.
  — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 June 2026
• During a Super El Nino, ocean temperatures surge by more than two degrees Celsius, releasing a massive amount of heat into the atmosphere.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 28 May 2026
• Several climate scientists forecast that 2027 will be the hottest year on record because of lagging effects of this El Nino, which is expected to peak in the fall or winter.
  — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026