After months of warnings , this year’s potentially disruptive El Niño season appears to be finally at our doorstep. The latest report from the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that “sea surface temperature anomalies” are increasing across the Pacific’s central-eastern equatorial regions—heralding an increased risk of “extreme weather over the coming months.”

WMO forecasts place an 80% chance of this El Niño event emerging between June and August with a 90% chance that this supercharged storm season will extend into at least November.…