PARIS: Europe&#39;s Copernicus Climate Change Service on Wednesday said that global forecasters were increasingly confident that a very strong&nbsp;<a href="https://pakistantv.com/article/80-chance-of-el-nino-developing-juneaugust-un" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">El Nino</a> warming weather pattern could develop later this year. &quot;From May 1st to June 1st all models effectively shifted upward their predictions,&quot; the service&#39;s director Carlo Buontempo told AFP of the latest monthly El Nino forecast. &quot;The odds are strongly in favor of a moderate to strong, or probably strong to record-breaking, event at this stage.&quot; El Nino is a natural climate phenomenon that warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial <a href="https://pakistantv.com/article/us-kills-14-in-strikes-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boats" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pacific Ocean</a>, bringing worldwide changes in winds, pressure and rainfall patterns. In its latest update, Copernicus said 75% of global forecasters that contribute to its El Nino outlook were predicting <a href="https://pakistantv.com/article/pakistan-navy-chief-warns-indian-ocean-disruption-could-hit-global-supply-chains" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">sea temperatures</a> in parts of the Pacific could surge 2.5 C or more above average by November. Just three events &ndash; 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16 &ndash; have breached 2C since the first major El Nino recorded in the modern era in 1877/78.

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The EU monitor said 75% of global forecasters that contribute to its El Nino outlook were predicting sea temperatures in parts of the Pacific could surge 2.5 C or more above average by November. 

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Odds rising for very strong El Nino: EU monitor