El Niño strengthens to highest category with 70% chance of record-breaking winter, new report says
A new report shows that El Niño has strengthened to the “very strong” category, the highest on the scale, as there is now a 70% chance of it exceeding all previous El Niños on record, with statistics going back to 1950.
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