{"id":45978,"date":"2026-08-05T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45978"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:24:38","slug":"el-nino-2026-update-the-monster-is-at-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/08\/el-nino-2026-update-the-monster-is-at-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"El Nino 2026 Update: The Monster is at the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has been remarkable for dramatic heat waves and furious fires around the world. The Canadian boreal forest is blazing, fires are ripping through the mountains in Washington state and Oregon, and the south of France and central Spain aare going up ion smoke.<\/p>\n<p>What happening is not all El Nino\u2019s fault but the monster that is forming on the eastern South Pacific is exacerbating the steady warming of planet earth. The oceans are warmer, the air hotter, the forests drier and sparks are flying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl Ni\u00f1o is not just on our doorstep \u2014 it is inside the house and turning up the heat,\u201d said U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. \u201cAnd this is only a warm-up act. El Ni\u00f1o is strengthening \u2014 adding fuel to a planet already on fire with scorching heat domes, apocalyptic wildfires, and record hot seas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/el-nino-2026?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=topic\/climate\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has been remarkable for dramatic heat waves and furious fires around the world. The Canadian boreal forest is blazing, fires are ripping through the mountains in Washington state and Oregon, and the south of France and central Spain aare going up ion smoke. What happening is not all El Nino\u2019s fault but the monster that is forming on the eastern South Pacific is exacerbating the steady warming of planet earth. The oceans are warmer, the air hotter, the forests drier and sparks are flying. \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o is not just on our doorstep \u2014 it is inside the house and turning up the heat,\u201d said U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. \u201cAnd this is only a warm-up act. El Ni\u00f1o is strengthening \u2014 adding fuel to a planet already on fire with scorching heat domes, apocalyptic wildfires, and record hot seas.\u201d Read more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45979,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978\/revisions\/45979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}