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El Niño to bring record-breaking temperatures. What does that mean for California weather? - San Francisco Chronicle

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El Niño to bring record temps. What does that mean for California?
Cars try to drive through floodwaters as high as 3 feet along northbound Highway 101 in South San Francisco on Dec. 31. An El Niño coupled with climate change could bring another extremely wet winter.Adam Pardee/Special to The Chronicle

Officials raised the alarm last week for a near guarantee that the world will face its hottest year on record within the next five years.

A double whammy of human-induced climate change and the return of El Niño are expected “to push global temperatures into uncharted territory,” said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas in a news release.

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