The temperature of the world's oceans in September was a record due to El Niño

The average sea surface temperature in September was 21.05 °C, which was a record for this month. It's from sb.by.

As TASS notes, the Earth Remote Sensing and Mapping Service Copernicus reported:

- The average surface temperature of the oceans in the off-polar zone in September 2026 was the highest on record for this month, surpassing the record set in September 2023 at 20.92 degrees. Water temperatures remain exceptionally high in the tropical Pacific, where El Niño is intensifying and temperatures are expected to continue rising in the coming months.

According to meteorologists, the temperature of the water in the area of the El Niño phenomenon reached 29.7 ° C – this is an absolute record, which exceeded the figures of 1982-1983, 1997-1998 and 2015-2016, when this phenomenon also took place with special intensity.

El Niño parameters continued to strengthen in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which is likely to eventually lead to the most intense El Niño in the history of meteorological observations.

The average temperature on the planet in September was 16.26 ° C. This is the second indicator for September in the history of meteorological observations, the temperature at this time of year was only in September 2023 - 16.38 ° C. The air temperature was 1.63 ° C above the average pre-industrial level. As a result, two months in a row, there is an excess of air temperature by more than 1.5 ° C over pre-industrial era indicators, for the first time since November 2025. More than 40 million people in East Africa face acute food insecurity