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UN warns El Niño to intensify, peak in December

Rank: 32
Running: 22h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 63
Regions: 5
Countries: 39
Languages: 18

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 8 Oct, 03:29 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +13 outlets from 8 Oct, 05:35 UTC.
Now: 63 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 39 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

13%21%25%33%

Africa 8 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Americas 13 outlets · 6 countries · 21%
Asia-Pacific 16 outlets · 10 countries · 25%
Europe 21 outlets · 14 countries · 33%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 6%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

The Express Tribune 8 Oct, 03:29 UTC
Infobae +32m
Anadolu Agency +36m
Free Malaysia Today +46m
La Presse +50m

Latest arrivals

Semana 8 Oct, 21:58 UTC
Daily Maverick 8 Oct, 20:30 UTC
Perfil 8 Oct, 19:33 UTC
Bloomberg 8 Oct, 19:24 UTC
NV 8 Oct, 19:04 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: 63 outlets in 39 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 63 outlets, 3 state-owned, 8 public-service, 52 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 14: Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 8 Oct 2026, 03:29 UTC. First seen 8 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 21:58 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: 4.77, 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: Continues Record-breaking super El Niño drives extreme weather impacts. 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

8 Oct 2026 14 24.05 63 39 63 39 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 8 Oct, 04:10 UTC · Updated 21:58 UTC

Covered by 63 outlets

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Covered by 63 outlets

Africa 8 outlets

Americas 13 outlets

Asia-Pacific 16 outlets

Europe 21 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets

International 1 outlet