James Stewart
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first heard Apr 2025
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James Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But inland, the Amazon rainforest would face a thermal stress test.
By combining intense droughts with record-breaking temperatures, trees would be pushed beyond their tolerance limits.
Previous Super El Ninos have seen the Amazon switch from a carbon sink to a carbon source, as drought kills off massive sways of the canopy.
In 2026, with the baseline temperature already higher, the risk of megafires in the world's lungs would be at an all-time high.
In North America, the jet stream is expected to split, so the US Southwest and California would get a sort of Godzilla winter with heavy snowpack and torrential rains.
Now this may help relieve reservoirs in the short term, but it brings the immediate threat of atmospheric rivers, long plumes of water vapor coming in from the tropics.
These events can trigger catastrophic landslides and cause localized flooding.
Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest would experience unusually hot and dry conditions.
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.
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