The strongest El Niño will significantly affect our country, and temperatures are expected to be generally high this winter

Report from our newspaper, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Jiang Xuehong) On November 3, the China Meteorological Administration held a press conference, at which it released the latest monitoring of El Niño, forecasts of cold air activity in November, and climate trend forecasts in November.

Gao Rong, deputy director of the National Climate Center, said that in September 2026, a super strong El Niño event formed in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific. In October, it has developed into the strongest El Niño event in the history of monitoring records. It is expected to reach its peak in late autumn and early winter, which will have a significant impact on my country’s climate this winter and next spring. It is expected that in the winter from late 2026 to early 2027, the national temperature will be generally high, but the frequency of cold waves will be slightly more frequent, and the temperature will fluctuate greatly. There will be strong cooling and snowfall in the north, and the risk of periodic low-temperature rain, snow, and freezing in the south will be prominent. Except for the low temperatures in northeastern Inner Mongolia and the western part of Northeastern China, the temperatures in most other parts of the country range from close to normal to higher than normal for the same period of the year, and show the characteristics of cold winter in the front and warm winter in the back. Periodic strong cooling and strong warming events are frequent in December and January. There is generally more precipitation across the country, with heavy snowfalls occurring frequently in most areas in the north, and significantly more precipitation in the south. Among them, there are periods of low-temperature rain, snow, and freezing weather in eastern and southern China, central and southern China, northern South China, and eastern southwest China.