In 1950, world witnessed strongest El Nino but weather forecasters warn of more powerful climate phenomenon that will push nearly 49 million people ⁠into acute food insecurity

El Nino is a phenomenon that occurs naturally, ​when weakening trade winds cause warmer ocean waters to build ​up in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. This typically leads to higher global temperatures and altered weather patterns, bringing drought to some ​regions and heavy rainfall to others.