'An unprecedented event': UK Met Office says this year's El Niño to be 'biggest for over a century'

UK’s Met Office says rising sea temperatures will create a heightened risk of drought in tropics and stormy conditions in northwestern Europe

This year’s El Niño weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century, warming sea surface temperatures to an “unheard-of” level, Britain’s national weather agency predicted on Friday. The El Niño weather pattern is declared when sea temperatures in the tropical eastern…