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Powerful El Niño develops in Pacific Ocean

Rank
Ran
40h
Updated
5d ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
4

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The Conversation Australia · English 29 Sept, 14:53 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Română (3) · Français (1) · Српски (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 40 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Blic, 28 Sept, 15:10 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with G4Media.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Conversation.
  4. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%

First movers

  1. Blic 28 Sept, 15:10 UTC
  2. G4Media +15h 51m
  3. Adevărul +20h 9m
  4. The Conversation +23h 43m
  5. Digi24 +29h 41m

Last to join

  1. Le Monde 30 Sept, 07:36 UTC
  2. Digi24 29 Sept, 20:51 UTC
  3. The Conversation 29 Sept, 14:53 UTC
  4. Adevărul 29 Sept, 11:20 UTC
  5. G4Media 29 Sept, 07:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Australia. Europe 3: France, Romania, Serbia. 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, French, Romanian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article Blic, 28 Sept 2026, 15:10 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 15:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 07:36 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.
Chain
Continued by VAATA VIDEOT ⟩ El Nino põhjustab ulatuslikke Kelvini laineid – mis need küll on?; The surprising way scientists are trying to save coral reefs from Super El Niño; Super El Niño atinge nível recorde e inibe furacões no Atlântico. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 340 3.62 5 3 4 2 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 15:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 07:36 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • The Conversation Australia 29 Sept, 14:53 UTC
    How can the same El Niño cause drought in one part of the world and floods in another?

Europe 5 outlets

  • Le Monde France 30 Sept, 07:36 UTC
    Peut-on enrayer les conséquences d’El Niño ?
  • Digi24 Romania 29 Sept, 20:51 UTC
    Cum a dus El Niño la dispariția sezonului uraganelor din Oceanul Atlantic
  • Adevărul Romania 29 Sept, 11:20 UTC
    Super El Niño se intensifică în Pacific: „motorul” ascuns din adâncuri care poate schimba iarna 2026-2027
  • G4Media Romania 29 Sept, 07:01 UTC
    Un „super El Niño” neobișnuit de puternic se dezvoltă în Pacific. Ce ar putea însemna pentru iarna 2026–2027 în Europa
  • Blic Serbia 28 Sept, 15:10 UTC
    STIŽE ZVER I RUŠI STOGODIŠNJE REKORDE! Snažan Kelvinov talas pokreće čudovište od fenomena, naučnici ne skidaju pogled sa radara: "Ulazimo u neistraženo!"
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