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El Niño Could Leave the East Coast Facing Bigger Threat Than Hurricanes - Newsweek (opens in a new tab)
newsweek.com · 2025-08-25
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El Niño Could Leave the East Coast Facing Bigger Threat Than Hurricanes - Newsweek
newsweek.com · 2025-08-25
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedMeteorologists are warning that the widespread impacts associated with a new nor'easter could pose a greater threat to parts of the U.S. in the coming months than hurricanes have so far this year.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe Atlantic hurricane season has seen below-average activity this year, due largely to the strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedEl Niño can disrupt the Atlantic hurricane season by increasing destructive wind shear that tears apart storms before they can form, and it can contribute to more nor'easters during the winter months because of how it strengthens the southern jet stream.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedIt is unclear how much of a role, if any, El Niño has played in the formation of the current nor'easter.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe developing storm could cause prolonged coastal impacts, including wind gusts up to 60 mph, coastal flooding, beach erosion, and road closures, with the most significant impacts expected from southeastern Virginia into the Outer Banks of North Carolina.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Crossref · 15 candidate papers
Resilient Seas: Environmental Drivers of Larval Fish Assemblages in the Gulf of Tortugas, Colombian Pacific.
Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · PubMed
Diagnosis of Anomalous Winter Temperatures over the Eastern United States during the 2002/03 El Niño
Journal of Climate · 2006 · Crossref
Hedging El Niño isn't the same as adapting to it.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026 · PubMed
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Impacts on Crop Production in the Southeast United States
ASA Special Publication · 2001 · Crossref
Divergent asymmetric responses of regional forest aboveground biomass carbon dynamics to climatic factors under different ENSO events.
Journal of Environmental Management · 2026 · PubMed