article_snippet.sent: The Met Office said in a long-range forecast that ‘much of the tropical Pacific Ocean remains warmer than average and close to El Nino thresholds’.
article_snippet.sent: El Nino warming of Pacific sea surface temperatures - can trigger drought in south-east Asia and Australia as well as floods in South America.
article_snippet.sent: The Met Office says most climate models
article_snippet.sent: ‘now suggest that sea surface temperatures will exceed El Nino thresholds in late spring or early summer’.