South America weather experts see La Niña, El Niño frequency rising. “We are permanently breaking records at the local, national and global level in temperature anomalies,”

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1. The climate phenomena known as El Niño and La Niña, which bring waves of heat, cold, rain or drought, will be more frequent and extreme in coming years, after South America suffered the most intense El Niño in decades, weather experts said on Thursday.

   According to the Ecuador-based International Center for Research on the El Niño Phenomenon (CIIFEN) and the Peruvian meteorology and hydrology agency SENAMHI, the recent El Niño was among the five strongest since 1950.