What you are seeing
🌡️ Sea temperature anomaly
How much warmer (red) or colder (blue) than normal the ocean is, from NASA/JPL satellites (GHRSST MUR, daily). During El Niño a warm tongue stretches along the equatorial Pacific toward Peru and Ecuador. Use the slider or ▶ to watch the last 30 days.
🌧️ Rain now
Rainfall rate from the NASA GPM IMERG constellation, updated every 30 minutes (about 4–6 hours behind real time).
🔥 Active fires and dry soil
Fire hotspots detected today by the VIIRS satellite, and root-zone soil moisture from NASA SMAP: browns show dry soil where drought is building.
⚠️ Live events
Floods, droughts, cyclones and wildfires reported by GDACS (UN/EU) and NASA EONET. Events marked “matches El Niño” happen where El Niño typically brings that kind of impact.
🏙️ Cities: last 30 days
Rain in the last 30 days (Open-Meteo) compared with the 1981–2025 normal for those dates and with what typically falls during El Niño (NASA POWER).
🗺️ Typical impacts by country
Wetter (more rain, floods) · Drier (drought, fires) · Mixed by region · Milder / warmer winter. Simplified typical tendencies; every event is different. La Niña is often roughly the opposite.
Current events that match the El Niño pattern
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana, Namibia (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana, Namibia (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana, Namibia (BW) · Nov 2 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana (BW) · Nov 1 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in China (CN) · Nov 1 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in China (CN) · Nov 1 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Botswana (BW) · Nov 1 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Australia (Australia) · Nov 1 · GDACS
- Wildfire · Forest fires in Brazil (Brazil) · Nov 1 · GDACS
Satellite imagery courtesy of NASA EOSDIS GIBS. Events: GDACS (European Commission JRC / UN OCHA) and NASA EONET. Night lights and labels: NASA Black Marble and GIBS reference layers. This is not an official warning service: in emergencies, follow your local authorities.