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    El Niño is likely returning, bringing danger for California and the world. ‘We need to be prepared’

    by Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times May 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Jameson Lane in Montecito, California, was flooded out in January because of heavy rainfall in the area.

    LOS ANGELES — It’s Earth’s original disrupter — a recurring climate pattern so powerful that it can drive global average temperature to record highs, and generate both cliff-crumbling storms and crop-destroying droughts across the planet.

    Now, after a long hiatus, El Niño is showing signs of a strong return in 2023.

    This week, federal forecasters said there was a 55% chance that a strong El Niño would occur, effectively flooding the surface of the Equatorial Pacific with water so unusually warm that it can alter weather patterns and devastate some ocean fisheries.

    El Niño is “the most important global form of climate variability, just given how much of the Earth it affects,” said Justin Mankin, a climate scientist at Dartmouth College. “The sloshing of sea surface temperatures totally reorganizes weather and climate around the world, and

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