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Pacific Ocean temperature breaks 30°C record during El Niño

Rank: –
Running: 35h
Updated: 13m ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 7
Regions: 3
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

Merged into UN warns El Niño to intensify, peak in December

Perfil Argentina · Spanish 8 Oct, 00:05 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · +1 language

Read at Perfil

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Perfil, 8 Oct, 00:05 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
Second region: Europe, with Der Standard.
Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

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

The regions

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Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

Perfil 8 Oct, 00:05 UTC
Infobae +6h 40m
Der Standard +9h 55m
ORF +21h 29m
El Observador (CR) +22h 51m

Latest arrivals

Sözcü 9 Oct, 11:12 UTC
La Vanguardia 9 Oct, 09:18 UTC
El Observador (CR) 8 Oct, 22:55 UTC
ORF 8 Oct, 21:34 UTC
Der Standard 8 Oct, 10:00 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Record-breaking super El Niño drives extreme weather impacts, 5 to 7 Oct 2026, 6 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, Costa Rica. Europe 2: Austria, Spain. 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: German, Spanish, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article Perfil, 8 Oct 2026, 00:05 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 00:40 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 12:14 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 of its own. It was merged into UN warns El Niño to intensify, peak in December, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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: Continues Record-breaking super El Niño drives extreme weather impacts. Merged into UN warns El Niño to intensify, peak in December. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 8 Oct, 00:40 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 12:14 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Covered by 7 outlets

Americas 3 outlets

Europe 3 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet