A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is tracking it closely. El Niño is a natural climate pattern that emerges roughly…

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NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño

This visualization compares three ocean data products, sea surface temperature anomaly, apparent visible wavelength, and sea surface height anomaly, over the same months in 2025 and 2026. Signals of El Niño in each map are highlighted with pop-up labels.

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NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is

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