El Niño is officially here, and this 1 could be a doozy
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The Rosedale Grandmont Baseball League in Detroit says it canceled tryouts and practices on Saturday after being alerted by police about talks online of a teen takeover. Julia Avant reports from Stoepel Park where the takeover was supposed to take place.
The latest guidance from the Climate Prediction Center gives a 63% chance of a very strong El Niño, or sometimes called a “Super El Niño,” by early winter. Locally, El Niño will likely produce significant weather changes for the rest of 2026. El Niño patterns help increase wind shear across the tropical Atlantic in the summer and early fall.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially declared an El Niño episode for this year. The El Niño is expected to intensify, according to NOAA forecasters. Sea surface temperatures have a 63% chance of exceeding 2 degrees Celsius,
A developing El Niño is already altering Pacific winds and ocean heat, setting up possible shifts in U.S. weather and hurricane seasons in 2026.
The National Weather Service has issued a BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT for Northern Ohio’s lakefront counties, including Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain and Ottawa. It goes into effect late Friday,
Full disclosure: this is a weird weather pattern. Fill disclosure, part 2: this weather pattern is quite difficult to pin down.
