Eastern Pacific Ocean poised for fast start, as potential super El Niño looms

Name: Eastern Pacific Ocean poised for fast start, as potential super El Niño looms
Uploaded: 2026-04-30T14:32:47Z
Duration: 3 min 7 s
Description: NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has highlighted an area off the southern coast of Mexico for potential tropical development, with a little more than two weeks before the start of hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific. This comes with the El Niño climate pattern forecast to develop sometime this summer, which is expected to increase the number of named storms in the basin.

FWX · Apr 30, 2026 · 3m 7s

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NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has highlighted an area off the southern coast of Mexico for potential tropical development, with a little more than two weeks before the start of hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific. This comes with the El Niño climate pattern forecast to develop sometime this summer, which is expected to increase the number of named storms in the basin.