Summary of Próximo Verão vai ser de rachar! Entenda o El Niño

00:00:00 - 00:00:00

In the YouTube video "Próximo Verão vai ser de rachar! Entenda o El Niño ," meteorologists forecast that the upcoming summer will be exceptionally hot, making 2015 the warmest year on record. The anticipated temperature rise, coupled with the El Niño phenomenon, could lead to temperature increases of up to 4 degrees in Brazil's warmer states like Rio de Janeiro, Piauí, and Tocantins. El Niño, a westward movement of warm Pacific Ocean water, causes devastating consequences such as heavy rainfall and landslides in normally dry areas of South America and the Pacific Ocean's tropical west. Other effects include warmer waters at great depths, disrupting the submarine food chain, and damage to coral reefs. An opposite phenomenon, La Niña, occurs the following year, bringing cooler waters and potential climate disruptions to Asia and America. El Niño occurs every 3-7 years and has grown stronger and more frequent in recent decades, but its cause remains unknown, and it is unclear whether global warming enhances or aggravates the phenomenon. Predictions are difficult, and experts can only provide a few months of advance notice.

• 00:00:00 In this section of the YouTube video titled "Próximo Verão vai ser de rachar! Entenda o El Niño," meteorologists predict that the upcoming summer will be extremely hot, making 2015 the warmest year on record. The temperature increase, combined with the El Niño phenomenon, could raise temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Brazil's warmer states such as Rio de Janeiro, Piauí, and Tocantins. El Niño, or the "little boy" in Spanish, is a westward movement of a massive amount of warm water in the Pacific Ocean. The warming of the water leads to increased evaporation and changes the weather patterns between the ocean and the atmosphere, resulting in devastating consequences such as heavy rainfall and landslides in normally dry areas of South America and the Pacific Ocean's tropical west. Other effects include warmer waters at great depths, preventing the necessary nutrients for the submarine food chain, and damage to coral reefs. An opposite phenomenon, La Niña, occurs the following year, bringing cooler waters and potential climate disruptions to Asia and America. El Niño occurs every 3-7 years and has become stronger and more frequent in recent decades, but its cause remains unknown, and it is unclear whether global warming enhances or aggravates the phenomenon. Making accurate predictions is difficult, and experts can only provide a few months of advance notice.