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The story
CNN reported that this year’s El Niño has reached the level of a “Super El Niño,” said to be the strongest on record, pushing global weather patterns into “uncharted territory.” Following the report, 5ch’s News Speed+ board saw a wave of comments about the gap between the headline and what people actually experienced. In eastern Japan, posts like “cooler and more comfortable than last year” and “we only ran the AC a quarter as many days as last year” were common, while in western Japan users pointed to more scorching-hot days — the impact clearly split by region. The thread also touched on typhoon formation and intensification trends, Europe’s heat wave, and questions about the relationship between global warming and El Niño, blending personal weather experience with concerns about planet-scale change.
Posted 9/15 (Tue) 10:05
CNN.co.jp
(CNN) This year’s El Niño has reached a level being called “Super,” entering uncharted territory.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The country that planted a ton of palm trees and started saying 'Aloha'
Next up, 'Great' goes at the front
Calling dibs on that one
Two, three… it's 'God'
Don't make me say something this embarrassing
41 Anonymous Donburako (a generic 5ch throwaway username) 2026/03/20 (Fri) 05:35:08.12 ID:Az+IKYP60
Re: #2
If 70% of the raw material for window sashes disappears,
then sash makers' work drops 70% too, right
43 Anonymous Donburako 2026/03/20 (Fri) 05:42:48.27 ID:Az+IKYP60
Re: #42
If raw materials drop 70%, production drops 70% too, so the work drops 70%,
and staff get cut 70% as well
51 Anonymous Donburako 2026/03/20 (Fri) 05:55:14.23 ID:zlyhQQA/0
Re: #46
Never been affected by this before, so…
mind if I save this?
I'm hoping you're not lying
A 70% drop means 100 orders a month turns into something like 30-odd
That's easy enough to check later, so I'm going to save this properly — that okay with you?
52 Anonymous Donburako 2026/03/20 (Fri) 05:58:58.36 ID:Az+IKYP60
Re: #51
Sure
Go ask the Sun or the Earth, humanity's actual 'owners'
As for the planets of the solar system — those guys are just stuck clinging to the surface of the third planet
The weather was bad this year all through Kanto up into Tohoku, though.
Europe's about to get wiped out by a heat wave
Kyoto (oh, sure) Osaka (oh, sure)
Hyper, Greater, and Infinite are all still waiting in the wings
I totally misread that as 'Greta' lol (as in Greta Thunberg)
Ultimate El Niño
Honestly this feels like good old traditional Japanese summer weather
It's only eastern Japan though
Sounds like western Japan had a lot of scorching-hot days
Glad I'm in the east
This should just be permanent
Let's sacrifice western Japan
I'm in the Tama area, and I only ran the AC about a quarter as many days as last year.
Seriously, a fan alone was plenty.
Though last year was the worst heat on record, so it's an extreme comparison.
Typhoons aren't even hitting Kyushu, yet fire insurance premiums just keep climbing
Roughly speaking, the spot where tropical depressions tend to form shifts southeast (won't get into why).
That means they're not blocked by land, so they develop into typhoons more easily, and by the time they reach Japan there's a higher chance they've grown into big ones.
El Niño feels more like some prank nature is pulling, like it'll just fade away on its own eventually
Maybe there are just too many humans now — once everyone had a smartphone and a car, things started breaking down
There's an international climate body called the IPCC, and they've flatly concluded that 'warming is real and human activity is the cause.'
The rate ice melts and the rate the seafloor sinks under the added weight of water aren't the same, so…
There's actually a deep geophysical connection between the Jōmon period and 'seafloor subsidence,' called hydro-isostasy (water-hemisphere crustal equilibrium).
The sea-level rise of the Jōmon period (the Jōmon transgression) is usually explained simply as 'the Earth warmed and ice melted,' but that's not the whole story — the seafloor also sank under the weight of the extra seawater, which had a major effect on the land-shape changes that followed.
(rest omitted)
Well, they've got a huge land area and a huge population
If it's their own CO2 causing it, that's kind of just karma
They're building things like transcontinental waterways
and blocking underground water channels too — it's a total mess
They've also done cloud seeding with silver iodide for artificial rain, and that's caused damage elsewhere too
Thanks to that my body's been out of whack, though
Yeah, I guess that's how it turned out
Actually it'll be way sooner than that (´・ω・｀)
Re: #68
Welcome party for the raid on the galactic core
It'll end way sooner than that
2037: AI achieves total control
Humanity extinct by 2045
in about another 15,000 years, the Sahara and Egypt will become green paradises again too
The question is whether humanity will even still be around in 15,000 years
Well, guess we'll just have to be reborn around then
Background and Key Points
El Niño is a natural phenomenon in which sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific rise above average; it occurs every few years and affects temperature and precipitation patterns worldwide. “Super El Niño” is a colloquial term for an especially strong occurrence, with the 2015-16 event previously regarded as the record-holder for strength. Importantly, this is a natural variability cycle separate from global warming itself — when El Niño’s swings layer on top of the baseline rise from warming, extreme heat, heavy rain, and typhoon intensity can get pushed into “uncharted territory.” The thread’s discussion touched on regional differences in how it felt (cooler in eastern Japan, scorching in western Japan), but this isn’t unique to Japan — El Niño is known to push temperature and precipitation in opposite directions depending on the region. Some posts framed the cause of warming as either “human activity” or “a trick of nature,” but the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has concluded that human activity is the primary driver, with El Niño acting as one of the factors that amplifies or dampens the swings.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Earth] Strongest ‘Super El Niño’ on Record Occurs, World Weather Enters Uncharted Territory.”
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