The Water

Nature: the worst El Niño on the books is brewing.

Southern Africa to the Amazon. Polo ate 110 mph of that heat overnight. The window is closing.

The Rocket News · Science and Tech · WashingtonSeptember 22, 2026 · 4 min read

Nature: the worst El Niño on the books is brewing. Polo ate the heat overnight.

Nature this morning: the worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing. Southern Africa to the Amazon. Governments, it said, still have a window, and it is closing. The Science desk files the Pacific, not the speech in the green hall.

CNN: Hurricane Polo ate that heat. One hundred ten miles an hour in a day, Category 5 off Guerrero by breakfast, among the fastest jumps on the Eastern Pacific books. Patricia still holds 120. Otis took 105 into Acapulco. Polo’s core is forecast to stay offshore. The rain is not.

The window for action is rapidly closing.

The Science desk files Tuesday as it is: a record in the water, a Category 5 that did not exist Sunday, and a journal that told the capitals to move.

Wire and further reading: nature.com

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