James Stewart
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first heard Apr 2025
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On the other side of the world, in Australia, the news is also sobering.
The Bureau of Meteorology has already issued a below average rainfall forecast for the eastern and southwestern parts of the country.
And it's not just the lack of rain.
Farmers in New South Wales are facing a perfect storm.
They're still recovering from the massive floods of previous years, but now they could be hit by a triad of pressures, intensifying drought, extreme bushfire risk and a global spike in fertilizer and fuel costs all thrown into one.
As we touched on earlier as well, El Nino does something strange to traditional hurricane patterns.
Generally, it tends to tilt the odds of Pacific cyclones and reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes.
In 2015, for example, during the strongest El Nino we've ever seen so far, the Central Pacific had an unusually active cyclone season.
In total, there were 16, including three simultaneous category four storms.
It was crazy.
So a 2026 Super El Niño would likely mean, yeah, a quieter Atlantic season, which is good news for the US East Coast, but terrible news for Eastern Pacific cyclones that affect Mexico, Hawaii and beyond.
And you guessed it, there's more.
Historically, El Niños have caused fish declines and even penguin die-offs in the Galapagos due to changes in ocean currents.
A Super El Niño would only magnify these biological stresses.
And all of that before we've even gotten to the thing that keeps us alive, food.
I mean, even now, climate analysts are already warning that a strong El Niño could significantly strain food supplies.
The India Meteorological Department has pegged the 2026 monsoon at just 92% of its long period average, the lowest in nearly 30 years.
And that has a direct threat to the carif crops, the staples, things like rice, cotton and soybeans that literally feed billions of people.
If the rains fail in August and September, we aren't just looking at dry fields.
We're looking at food inflation that could exceed 4.5%, destabilizing the rural economy for the entire subcontinent.
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