Meteorologists predict an El Niño for the history books
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Meteorologists expect not only that an El Niño warming pattern will emerge this year, but also that it will be one of the strongest on record. And, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's prime minister from 2004 to 2011, has been charged with influence peddling in the controversial rescue of an airline partly owned by government officials in Venezuela. Also, during a legislative session in Jamaica last week, a lawmaker used Jamaican Patois — also known as Jamaican — and caused quite a stir. Plus, go into the weekend with the electronic sounds of Cumbia.
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| 0:00.0 | Comprehensive. |
| 0:02.0 | Witty. |
| 0:02.6 | Speculative. |
| 0:03.3 | Critical. |
| 0:04.0 | Insightful. |
| 0:04.8 | Profound. |
| 0:05.6 | Wide-ranging. |
| 0:06.5 | Hopefully doesn't take itself too, too seriously. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, my colleagues and I try to make sense of what's happening in this chaotic world. |
| 0:17.2 | I hope you'll join us for the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:22.1 | A thoughtful, exquisite, just, you know, real. |
| 0:31.2 | Strap yourselves in, El Nino is coming. |
| 0:38.3 | It's one of the Earth's most unstable features of the climate system. |
| 0:43.3 | Predictions are this one will be intense. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Marco Wormin today, the history of El Nino and why experts are concerned. |
| 0:50.3 | Meanwhile, in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. |
| 0:52.3 | That is the sound of the water from the artificial glaciers reaching this village in this huge |
| 0:58.9 | underground reservoir. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes, artificial glaciers bringing water to thirsty communities, plus a heated moment in Jamaica's |
| 1:06.9 | Parliament. |
| 1:09.7 | A lawmaker's afternoon for my first sectoral speech. |
| 1:12.0 | A lawmaker breaks the rules by speaking in a language prohibited in parliament. |
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