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Forecasters Warn Super El Niño Could Exceed Earlier Projections
CNN reported that meteorologists who had already flagged this El Niño as intense were revising projections upward, citing faster-than-expected Niño 3.4 warming and subsurface heat content running ahead of the 1997-98 and 2015-16 reference events at the same point in their evolution.
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- T2 CNN Major