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- The 2023-24 El Nino has peaked as one of the five strongest on record.
- It will continue to impact global climate in the coming months despite a weakening trend.
- The prevailing El Nino conditions fuelled record temperatures and extreme events the world over, with 2023 being the warmest on record.
- It has displayed a peak value of about 2.0 degrees Celsius above the 1991 to 2020 average sea-surface temperature for the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean.
- This made it one of the five strongest El Nino events ever, though it was weaker than the 1997-98 and 2015-2016 events.
- The global mean temperature has breached the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold for an entire year for the first time in January.
- Every month since June 2023 has set a new monthly temperature record -- and 2023 was, by far, the warmest year on record.
- El Nino is a periodic warming of the ocean surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
- It occurs every two to seven years on an average, and typically lasts nine to 12 months.
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