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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released their temperature data for the Pacific Ocean, confirming that the current El Niño is the hottest ever recorded. Unfortunately, this also may guarantee that the current cycle will result in a prolonged La Niña event in the later half of 2016.

The previous record-holding El Niño period was the week of November 26, 1997, where surface temperatures were recorded at 2.8°C. The new record, for the week ending November 09, 2015, hit an even 3.0°C above normal – over seven percent higher than the previous record. This will result in more severe weather patterns in the US southwest, and possible drought conditions in Australia and Indonesia.
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Unknowncountry.com’s Climate Watch predicts powerful winter storms for northern and central North America and into the US Atlantic Seaboard this year. The winter started out very hard in Siberia, which experienced a record cold and snowy October. This weather pattern is already extending into the US and Canada.read more

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference is scheduled to be held in Paris at the end of this year, that will host discussions on how to achieve their proposed target of a 2ºC cap on the rise in average global temperatures. However, a new study on sea-level rise says that this goal may not be enough to save coastal cities from drowning.
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A new study of satellite data from NASA says that the overall ice sheet that covers Antarctica has been slowly thickening. However, the two sides of the continent are seeing contrasting effects: warming conditions in West Antarctica have been contributing to the retreat pof  the ices sheets there, and increasing the destabilization of the glaciers.read more