El Nino 2024 Indonesian Festival. There is a more than 95% chance that el nino conditions will prevail from december 2023 to february 2024, a u.s. Indonesian president joko widodo warned officials to anticipate risks from the first el niño since the 2015 southeast asia wildfires crisis.

The warm ocean water weather phenomenon el nino is likely to affect major palm oil growing regions in the world impacting the yield of the commodity sometime in the second. Here, we answer fundamental questions about how el niño develops, how scientists make predictions about it, and how it causes unusual effects.