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El Ni\u00f1o is nearing its end. Does that mean global temperatures will cool down in 2024?<\/a><\/h3>\n

March was the 10th month in a row with record-breaking temperatures<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A view of a digital sign displaying the high temperature in Death Valley, Calif., on July 15, 2023. Global temperatures hit a record that month, and the year ended up being the hottest on record. (Jorge Garcia\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Last year, the planet experienced its hottest year on record. While it wasn’t entirely a surprise that 2023 could top\u00a0the previous hottest year \u2014 2016 \u2014 in light of ongoing greenhouse gas emissions, what did come as a surprise\u00a0was by how much<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the contributing factors to that extreme warmth was El Ni\u00f1o, a natural, cyclical warming in a region of the Pacific Ocean that, coupled with the atmosphere, can cause global temperatures to rise. Last year, it began in June.<\/p>\n

Typically, the global atmosphere responds to\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o in the subsequent year, which begs the question: Could 2024 be even hotter than 2023?<\/p>\n

“Basing it on the El Ni\u00f1o at the beginning of the year, and then seeing how things are working out this year, it suggests that 2024 is going to be almost the same as 2023,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.<\/p>\n

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Animation of maps of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean compared to the long-term average over five-day periods from February through early April 2024. El Ni\u00f1o\u2019s warm surface is weakening and some regions of cooler-than-average sea surface temperature are appearing. NOAA Climate.gov, based on Coral Reef Watch maps available from NOAA View.\u00a0( NOAA Climate.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

But there are a lot of other things to take into account, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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El Ni\u00f1o is nearing its end. Does that mean global temperatures will cool down in 2024? March was the 10th month in a row with record-breaking temperatures A view of a digital sign displaying the high temperature in Death Valley, Calif., on July 15, 2023. Global temperatures hit a record that month, and the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3000,252,34400,1219],"class_list":["post-67660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cbc-news","tag-el-nino","tag-nicole-mortillaro","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67661,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions\/67661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}