Marnie Chesterton

So that oof was from host Roland Pease because six degrees above the normal ocean temperature is a lot.

And normally, if you've got above two degrees above ocean temperature, you can expect an El Nino.

And that's the two degrees above is the borderline for a super El Nino.

So how this happens is that this weather party has moved a whole load of extra heat and water vapour from the west side of the Pacific Basin to the east.

And this has global implications.

Michael, Sandy, what does an El Nino year mean for your bit of the world?

Yeah, so here in Southeast Asia, El Nino is expected to hit us pretty bad this summer.

They keep talking about it on the news.

And what that means is that we can expect it to be a lot hotter and drier.

I think many health experts in the region are worried because many countries are already suffering from a fuel crisis due to the Iran war.

So it's going to be even more challenging to keep people cool and at healthy temperatures.

Michael, what about Kenya?

Yeah.

Yeah, no, that's really interesting because I feel like we're on the opposite end.

So you guys get more rains and we get less rains.

But I do remember 1997 and 1998 was especially bad.

We had really bad haze.

And I remember that because they actually shut school for a couple of days, which made me very happy.

So the 97-98 year sticks in a lot of people's minds as the first big super El Nino.

I think that's when it registered first on a lot of people's radars.