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El Niño / La Niña 2026

Every dispatch on this road this season, in order: the thread a daily newsletter leaves behind when you read it end to end.

8Dispatches
240Days · MAR 5–OCT 30
I-34El Niño
Where the dispatches were filed8 of 8 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Strong El Niño forecast to form this summer suppressing hurricane activity LOOP MAR 5 · I-34 EL NIÑO Strong El Niño forecast to form this summer suppressing hurricane activity Massive Super Typhoon to track near Guam and will help trigger Super El Niño FIGURE 1 APR 8 · I-34 EL NIÑO Massive Super Typhoon to track near Guam and will help trigger Super El Niño Ghost town in the Atlantic for the next 2-weeks at least as El NIño takes the wheel FIGURE 1 JUN 24 · I-34 EL NIÑO Ghost town in the Atlantic for the next 2-weeks at least as El NIño takes the wheel Atlantic tropics very quiet but Pacific is full tilt El Niño with Fausto, Genevieve, and Noul, and more to come FIGURE 1 JUL 24 · I-34 EL NIÑO Atlantic tropics very quiet but Pacific is full tilt El Niño with Fausto, Genevieve, and Noul, and more to come
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · MAR 5 Strong El Niño forecast to form this summer suppressing hurricane activity Equatorial Pacific
  2. Exit 2 · APR 8 Massive Super Typhoon to track near Guam and will help trigger Super El Niño Equatorial Pacific
  3. Exit 3 · JUN 24 Ghost town in the Atlantic for the next 2-weeks at least as El NIño takes the wheel Equatorial Pacific
  4. Exit 4 · JUL 24 Atlantic tropics very quiet but Pacific is full tilt El Niño with Fausto, Genevieve, and Noul, and more to come Equatorial Pacific
  5. Exit 5 · JUL 26 Atlantic tropics remain very quiet but Pacific is full tilt El Niño with Fausto, Genevieve, and soon a monster Super Typhoon forming out by the Dateline Equatorial Pacific
  6. Exit 6 · AUG 17 · Subscribers Atlantic remains quiet this week. The Pacific gearing up for another flurry of El Niño fueled tropical activity Equatorial Pacific
  7. Exit 7 · OCT 13 Historical Context of Atlantic Inactivity as Pacific goes bonkers with El Niño Equatorial Pacific
  8. Exit 8 · OCT 30 Heavy rain across the Southwest and Texas linked to El Niño fueled Pacific moisture Texas
END Still active. The next dispatch adds an exit.

Why I-34?

El Niño stories ride Interstate 34, after the Niño-3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific whose temperature defines the phase.

Niño-3.4

The central-Pacific box, 5°N–5°S and 120°–170°W, whose sea-surface anomaly defines El Niño; the shield number of this road.

El Niño / La Niña

The warm and cool phases of the Pacific's slow oscillation, each tilting the odds on the season downstream.

Teleconnection

A weather pattern in one place statistically tied to conditions thousands of kilometres away.