Max, El Niño. Several Youtubbie clips on it.

I don't think I am the Max you are asking, but:

I think it will be hot

If I'm the Max you're looking for...

El Nino increases the likelihood of a cooler, wetter summer, and tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes 

max_weisenfeld said:

If I'm the Max you're looking for...

El Nino increases the likelihood of a cooler, wetter summer, and tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes 

Thx.

max_weisenfeld said:

If I'm the Max you're looking for...

El Nino increases the likelihood of a cooler, wetter summer, and tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes 

Whoops. Guess I was correct.

maxformaplewood said:

Whoops. Guess I was correct.

Dunno. You said, "I think it will be hot." 

Max W.: "... likelihood of a cooler...."  

MfM: Maybe don't give up your day job to be a weatherman..  

Of course, we have to wait for June 21 to find out.

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Dunno. You said, "I think it will be hot." 

Max W.: "... likelihood of a cooler...."  

MfM: Maybe don't give up your day job to be a weatherman..  

Of course, we have to wait for June 21 to find out.

maxformaplewood said:

I don't think I am the Max you are asking

Cooler and fewer hurricanes sounds pretty good to me!

I hope the El Niño brings enough rain to end our drought.  When I checked a week ago, we were missing about four inches of rain.  The trees and shrubs are suffering.  

maxformaplewood said:

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Dunno. You said, "I think it will be hot." 

Max W.: "... likelihood of a cooler...."  

MfM: Maybe don't give up your day job to be a weatherman..  

Of course, we have to wait for June 21 to find out.

maxformaplewood said:

I don't think I am the Max you are asking

I thought it had changed its name back to HBO Max anyway

max_weisenfeld said:

If I'm the Max you're looking for...

El Nino increases the likelihood of a cooler, wetter summer, and tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes 

I think the OP is actually referring to the prospect of a "Super El Niño." Much higher water temps than a typical El Niño.

I've read some pretty dire forecasts if that occurs, mostly on macro climate issues such as major droughts in some areas and flooding in others. 

If memory serves, the articles indicated that millions died in less-developed parts of the world in the late 19th Century when one of these occured.

Are you familiar with this, Max W.?

From Wikipedia:

1877–1878

The strongest super El Niño on record as of early 2026 was the 1877–1878 event, which led to a global famine that killed more than 50 million people, or about 3-4 percent of the estimated global population, in disasters such as the Great Famine of 1876–1878 in India, the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879, and the Grande Seca in Brazil.^[8] In North America the event was known as the Year without a winter because of unseasonably warm weather in certain areas.^{[18][19][20][21]}