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Strong El Niño forms, raising concerns about European winter weather

Rank
Ran
36h
Updated
14h ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
8

CGTN China · English 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Español (1) · Português (1) · Română (1) · Slovenščina (1) · Svenska (1) · 中文 (1) · +6 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 45 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: CGTN, 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with Digi24.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Digi24.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 05:01 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 7 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 2 outlets · 2 countries · 25%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 25%
  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. CGTN 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC
  2. China News Service +8h 31m
  3. Digi24 +37h 16m
  4. La República (CO) +38h 16m
  5. Večer +39h 15m

Last to join

  1. Aftonbladet 11 Oct, 12:14 UTC
  2. G1 11 Oct, 11:00 UTC
  3. Frankfurter Allgemeine 11 Oct, 07:39 UTC
  4. Večer 11 Oct, 06:00 UTC
  5. La República (CO) 11 Oct, 05:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 8 outlets, 2 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, Colombia. Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 4: Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden. 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, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Swedish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article CGTN, 9 Oct 2026, 14:45 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC. Last seen 11 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
0.34, 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 What Is a Super El Niño? How It Affects Weather and Food Production; Koralai – informacijos apie klimatą archyvas: ar El Ninjo reiškiniai tampa intensyvesni?. 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
11 Oct 2026 161 4.08 8 7 6 6 4.7

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Started 9 Oct, 23:20 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 12:14 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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  • Aftonbladet Sweden 11 Oct, 12:14 UTC
    El Niño slår till – bönder rustar för monsterregn
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    • El Niño slår till – bönder rustar för monsterregn 11 Oct, 12:14 UTC
  • G1 Brazil 11 Oct, 11:00 UTC
    El Niño muda circulação atmosférica e interfere nas chuvas: ‘Clima cada vez mais descontrolado’, aponta especialista
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 11 Oct, 07:39 UTC
    El Niño: Steht uns ein Eiswinter bevor?
  • Večer Slovenia 11 Oct, 06:00 UTC
    Kakšna zima nas čaka? Letošnji El Niño bi lahko v Evropo prinesel ekstremni mraz
  • La República (CO) Colombia 11 Oct, 05:01 UTC
    Los episodios más intensos del Niño y las temperaturas extremas que dejaron
  • Digi24 Romania 11 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    El Nino ar putea schimba vremea în Europa. Ce legătură există între încălzirea Pacificului și riscul de ger la iarnă
  • China News Service China 9 Oct, 23:16 UTC
    超强厄尔尼诺已经形成 如何防备和应对?
  • CGTN China 9 Oct, 14:45 UTC
    El Niño and warming waters in fight over future of Hurricane Isaias
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