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Record-breaking super El Niño drives extreme weather impacts

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 47h 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) · +2 languages

Read at The Washington Post

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

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

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

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

Last to join

Sözcü 7 Oct, 04:21 UTC
VOV 7 Oct, 01:40 UTC
El Comercio 6 Oct, 21:17 UTC
NBC News 6 Oct, 21:10 UTC
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: 0.00, as of now. 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 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.

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How this was measured

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

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

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
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