Skip to the story

International / No single location · Environment

Record-breaking super El Niño drives extreme weather impacts

Rank
Ran
47h
Updated
2d ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
4

The Washington Post United States · English 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Türkçe (1) · +2 languages

Read at The Washington Post

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 47 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Infobae, 5 Oct, 05:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: United States, with The Washington Post.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 6 Oct, 21:10 UTC.
  4. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with VOV.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

48 of 48 hours

Earlier Later

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%17%16%

  • Americas 4 outlets · 3 countries · 67%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 16%

First movers

  1. Infobae 5 Oct, 05:00 UTC
  2. The Washington Post +28h
  3. NBC News +40h 10m
  4. El Comercio +40h 18m
  5. VOV +44h 40m

Last to join

  1. Sözcü 7 Oct, 04:21 UTC
  2. VOV 7 Oct, 01:40 UTC
  3. El Comercio 6 Oct, 21:17 UTC
  4. NBC News 6 Oct, 21:10 UTC
  5. The Washington Post 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Argentina, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Vietnam. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Infobae, 5 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 05:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:21 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
On the map
Best rank 66, 7 Oct 2026, 04:30 UTC. Drawn from 7 Oct 2026, 01:40 UTC to 7 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. Peak score 2.76, 7 Oct 2026, 04:30 UTC. The map as it stood at each ten-minute run: the rank is the story’s place among the stories drawn, 1 the largest tile, and the span is from the first run that drew it to the last. Kept for every story that reached the map since 1 October 2026, before the story is deleted from the live table.
Chain
Continued by UN warns El Niño to peak in December 2026; Meerestemperaturen: Rekordwarme Pazifikregion: El Niño könnte Rekorde brechen; Pacific Ocean temperature breaks 30°C record during El Niño; Landslides, flash floods and raging seas: is California ready for the ravages of El Niño?. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

This record as JSON, CC BY 4.0.

How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 5 Oct, 05:20 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 04:21 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

Pin outlets you trust with ☆ and they come first in every story.

Americas 4 outlets

  • El Comercio Peru 6 Oct, 21:17 UTC
    El Niño podría ser histórico en California: esto recomiendan hacer desde ahora ante lluvias, inundaciones y deslizamientos
  • NBC News United States 6 Oct, 21:10 UTC
    A ‘super’ El Niño sets an ocean surface temp record as aid groups prepare for the worst
  • The Washington Post United States 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC
    How a record-breaking El Niño could supercharge California’s winter storms
  • Infobae Argentina 5 Oct, 05:00 UTC
    El Niño impulsa una temporada récord de huracanes en el Pacífico: ya superó el promedio anual

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • VOV Vietnam 7 Oct, 01:40 UTC
    Siêu El Niño khiến nhiệt độ bề mặt đại dương lập kỷ lục

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Sözcü Turkey 7 Oct, 04:21 UTC
    1950'den beri görülen en güçlüsü yola çıktı geliyor
Read at The Washington Post

Loudest reads the world's press every ten minutes and sizes each story by how widely it is covered.

Live map Archive Data Sources Methodology About Privacy & terms