80% chance of El Niño developing June-August — UN

GENEVA — There is an 80-percent chance of the warming El Niño phenomenon developing between June and August, increasing the risk of extreme weather events, the World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday. "Fueled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, El Niño conditions are developing and are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns," the United Nations' weather and climate agency (WMO) said. Forecasts from the WMO global network "indicate