From drought to floods in North Africa: What could the super El Niño do next?

Morocco has swung from a record seven-year drought to an exceptionally wet 2025–26 winter as Atlantic storm tracks shifted south. Now a super El Niño is forming, but scientists say Pacific warming only tilts the odds. Ultimately, the North Atlantic’s changing pressure patterns…

Morocco spent most of the last decade drying out. Between 2019 and 2024, the country recorded six consecutive years of below-average rainfall, the longest on record. The 2023–24 hydrological year was the driest in more than six decades, with a national total of just 106.4 mm.