Chico Harlan

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273 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Aug

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The Daily · El Niño Is Back. And Worse Than Ever. · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

Okay.

As we mentioned, El Nino's normally reach their peak around November, December.

That's when these Peruvians would see the tropical fish.

But this El Nino is already big in August, already big enough that if this was its December size, its full grown size, it would already be one of the biggest on record.

So what has scientists kind of alarmed, I think you can say, is that it still has months more to grow.

And it feels like all but an inevitability to them at this point that by the time it's done growing, it will be the largest on record.

And that record dates back about 80 years, not like people had temperature measuring gauges in this rectangle going back into the nineteenth century.

But the best guess if you talk to scientists is that this one could be the biggest in hundreds of years.

Wow.

That's what we're talking about for two thousand twenty six and two thousand twenty-seven.

And as you can imagine, the consequences of that for the world are huge.

And in fact, we're already beginning to see them.

Yeah, well, already across at least three continents, some of these telltale patterns that typically come with an El Nino are playing out.

So you have Panama, which is normally one of the wettest countries on Earth.

They haven't had a major storm since May.

And it's even like been raising concerns about the viability of the Panama Canal because that canal actually takes water from a rain-fed lake for its locks, then go to Africa.

The Horn of Africa always

Gets kind of a crazy back and forth during El Nino, but it parts can be very dry.

Ethiopia's highlands, which are very important for feeding the country.

Have had some of the driest like June, July periods on record.

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