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A FEWS NET food security assessment projects that, from October through at least January 2027, the most likely outcome in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province and other affected areas is acute food insecurity at IPC Phase 3, attributed to armed conflict and weather-related shocks.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET reports that household food stocks are being drawn down after a 2026 harvest that fell short of normal, with Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food security outcomes anticipated in the areas covered by the update.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

The piece sets out the backdrop to November's COP31 talks in Türkiye, where UN officials point to extreme heat records, severe flooding and an exceptional El Niño episode as reasons to speed up emissions cuts rather than accept warming overshoot.

UN News — ClimateUnited Nations·Opens the original document

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, working with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, sets out the current official ENSO alert status in this monthly assessment, along with probabilities for the coming forecast periods.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

EUMETSAT publishes the initial imagery returned by the newly launched Sentinel-3C satellite, whose instruments support ocean and land monitoring relevant to climate observation.

EUMETSATEurope·Opens the original document

The FEWS NET food security update notes that Crisis (IPC Phase 3) conditions are expected to continue in Afghan provinces including Daykundi, Faryab, Ghor, Badakhshan and Nimroz, even as wetter-than-normal winter rainfall supports wheat planting.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology bulletin from FEWS NET tracking rainfall hazards, reporting continued El Niño intensification alongside both entrenched long-term dryness and flood-producing downpours across parts of Africa, Central Asia and the Americas.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A FEWS NET food security update for Uganda projects that Karamoja will remain in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) through January, citing weak livestock conditions among the drivers, with worsening outcomes anticipated for refugee settlements.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

A FEWS NET agroclimatology analysis setting out how the 2026-2027 El Niño is expected to shape rainfall and, with a lag, food security, with separate sections for unimodal and bimodal East Africa, West Africa and southern Africa.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A FEWS NET agroclimatology update reviewing how the season has progressed and what forecasts indicate, noting that the Intertropical Front has moved to its most northerly position of the year.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

UN News reports that in Papua New Guinea wells and other water sources are running dry, harvests are failing and food costs are climbing even before the most severe agricultural effects of the current El Niño are anticipated.

UN News — ClimateUnited Nations·Opens the original document

EUMETSAT publishes a web article examining the relationship between El Niño and warmer summer temperatures, drawing on the agency's satellite observation work.

EUMETSATEurope·Opens the original document

A monthly briefing from FEWS NET's agroclimatology team summarizing El Niño conditions and their implications; the full assessment is available as a downloadable report.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET projects that Crisis (IPC Phase 3) food security outcomes will likely persist through January 2027 in the Colombian departments of La Guajira and Chocó, with Stressed conditions elsewhere.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET expects poor households in the Dry Corridor and around the Gulf of Fonseca to remain in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) levels of acute food insecurity.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET expects outcomes aligned with Stressed (IPC Phase 2) in southern Angola as of September 2026, following a below-average season, with food access squeezed by higher prices and an early lean period.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions — Niño-region sea surface temperature departures, subsurface heat, atmospheric indicators — alongside model forecasts for the seasons ahead.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A media advisory from NOAA giving advance notice that its national forecasting centre will release the seasonal temperature and precipitation outlook for the coming U.S. winter on Thursday, October 15.

NOAAUnited States·Opens the original document

A FEWS NET food security update finding that acute food insecurity is still widespread and severe even as the usual September harvest gets under way, with Emergency outcomes and a risk of Famine attributed to fighting, dry conditions and economic weakness.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

According to this French-language FEWS NET food security update, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) conditions are projected to continue in the Diffa and Tillabéri regions and in northwestern Tahoua following shortfalls in seasonal rains.

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According to FEWS NET, most areas showed Minimal (IPC Phase 1) conditions in September with pockets of Stressed (IPC Phase 2), but Crisis outcomes are anticipated in southern areas as households lose purchasing power over the outlook period.

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FEWS NET reports that Stressed (IPC Phase 2) conditions are also likely to continue through September in parts of Zambia's Southern and Western provinces, in addition to the areas named in the title.

FEWS NET — Food SecurityUnited States / global·Opens the original document

EUMETSAT's weekly satellite imagery feature presents views from its meteorological satellites of ongoing fire activity in the southern part of the island of Borneo.

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A news item from the European meteorological satellite agency EUMETSAT describing how African users are beginning to apply data from its latest generation of weather satellites, and how the organisation is meeting its pledges of support.

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FEWS NET's food security update warns that the Northern Lowlands Livelihood Zone is expected to slip from Stressed (IPC Phase 2) into Crisis conditions, with planting hampered by late rains, weak incomes and scarce fertilizer.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

This FEWS NET outlook for Kenya notes that Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes are projected to continue in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee settlements into January, alongside flood risks to recovery in the east.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET's global agroclimatology update tracks intensifying El Niño conditions alongside heat, rainfall and flood hazards across parts of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and southern Africa, flagging risks to agriculture and food security.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

FEWS NET's monthly market bulletin reports that cereal prices across the Sahel and coastal West African countries stood below both year-earlier levels and the five-year average, apart from areas affected by conflict and hosting refugees.

FEWS NET — Price WatchUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A daily humanitarian news roundup from UN OCHA, covering El Niño and the Central Emergency Response Fund alongside situation updates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria and Haiti.

UN OCHAUnited Nations / global·Opens the original document

A regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions, including Niño-region sea surface temperature departures, subsurface heat content and atmospheric indicators, alongside the latest model forecast plume for coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A downloadable monthly bulletin from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network reviewing rainfall and cropping conditions and their implications for food security, with no further detail available in the feed entry beyond the publication itself.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

An event announcement page published by EUMETSAT, the European satellite agency, for its meteorological satellite conference scheduled for 2027; the posting itself carries no further details of programme, venue or dates.

EUMETSATEurope·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology hazards update from FEWS NET, reviewing recent rainfall, temperature and flood conditions alongside ENSO developments across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, with implications flagged for agriculture and food security.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A UN News feature argues that a strengthening El Niño, arriving on top of an already warmer climate, heightens the danger of drought, flooding and lost harvests in key agricultural regions, while setting it apart from disasters that strike without warning.

UN News — ClimateUnited Nations·Opens the original document

A regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions — Niño-region sea surface temperature departures, subsurface heat, atmospheric indicators — alongside model forecasts for coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology update from FEWS NET, the USAID-funded famine early warning system, surveying weather hazards to cropping and livelihoods across Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and South America as ENSO conditions intensify.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

An announcement from EUMETSAT reporting the launch of the latest satellite in the Copernicus programme's Sentinel-3 series, which the agency operates for Earth observation.

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A FEWS NET agroclimatology briefing examines how a strengthening El Niño event could affect agricultural production across South America, including crops such as Colombian yellow potato.

FEWS NET — AgroclimatologyUnited States / global·Opens the original document

Regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions — ocean temperature departures, heat stored below the surface, atmospheric measures — alongside the range of model predictions for upcoming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

The FEWS NET agroclimatology update reviews conditions across East Africa's March–May, June–September and October–December seasons, noting that harvesting has finished in the region's bimodal rainfall areas.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

This FEWS NET update reviews food security anomalies recorded as of August 2026 and revises the assumptions underpinning the agency's outlook, including expected lean-season conditions among refugees.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, together with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, issues this monthly assessment of tropical Pacific conditions, setting the official ENSO alert status and the probabilities attached to its forecast.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global weather hazards and agroclimatology bulletin from FEWS NET, surveying rainfall, heat and drought conditions across Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America alongside the developing El Niño.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

NASA describes how the Sentinel-6B spacecraft, launched last November in partnership with European agencies to sharpen hurricane forecasting and support infrastructure protection and industries such as shipping, is now in operation.

NASA ScienceUnited States·Opens the original document

A regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center pulling together tropical Pacific observations — sea surface temperature departures by Niño region, upper-ocean heat storage and atmospheric indicators — alongside the spread of model forecasts for coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

An advocacy piece published by UN OCHA around the UN General Assembly urging governments to fund and organise preparedness measures ahead of anticipated El Niño impacts, with reference to South Sudan.

UN OCHAUnited Nations / global·Opens the original document

UN News reports that unusually warm Pacific sea temperatures are driving the event, which has not yet reached its peak, and that forecasters see it as near-certain to last into February 2027, bringing above-normal warmth.

UN News — ClimateUnited Nations·Opens the original document

EUMETSAT's weekly satellite imagery feature presents observations of fire activity in the southern part of Borneo.

EUMETSATEurope·Opens the original document

A downloadable monthly briefing from FEWS NET's agroclimatology unit tracking El Niño conditions and their implications; the feed entry itself carries no substantive detail beyond the report link.

FEWS NET — El Niño BriefingUnited States / global·Opens the original document

Regular slide-deck update from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions, including sea surface temperature departures in the Niño regions, heat content below the surface, atmospheric indicators and the spread of model forecasts for coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology hazards update from FEWS NET, tracking ENSO development alongside temperature and rainfall anomalies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America for their implications for crops and food security.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

A regular slide-deck briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center compiling tropical Pacific observations — sea surface temperature departures in the Niño regions, subsurface heat content and atmospheric indicators — alongside model forecasts for the coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology monitoring update from FEWS NET reviewing recent temperature and rainfall anomalies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, and their implications for crops and food security as ENSO conditions evolve.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

A regularly updated slide briefing from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reviewing tropical Pacific conditions, including Niño-region sea surface temperature departures, subsurface heat content, atmospheric indicators and the ensemble of model forecasts for coming seasons.

NOAA Climate Prediction CenterUnited States / global·Opens the original document

A global agroclimatology hazards update from FEWS NET, reviewing temperature and rainfall conditions region by region and flagging the risks they pose to crops and food security.

FEWS NET — El Niño 2026-27United States / global·Opens the original document

NASA Earth Observatory presents satellite observations of sea-surface chlorophyll from mid-2026, using the pigment readings as an indicator of changing nutrient availability for phytoplankton across the Pacific Ocean.

NASA Earth ObservatoryUnited States·Opens the original document

An IFRC feature describing how the Colombian Red Cross is using forecast data and anticipatory action to prepare for the effects of El Niño, which the article says is strengthening in the region.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesGlobal·Opens the original document

NOAA describes how its satellites follow storms from the earliest stage of development, including a GOES West image showing three tropical cyclones at once in the eastern Pacific.

NOAAUnited States·Opens the original document

The UN World Food Programme said on Wednesday that the intensifying El Niño is expected to drive close to 50 million additional people in the world's most vulnerable communities into acute hunger, UN News reports.

UN News — ClimateUnited Nations·Opens the original document