Super El Niño a ‘postcard from the future’

Key points

• A University of Chicago research group projects 451,000 extra deaths from heat linked to the current Super El Niño, compared with a normal year. The forecast covers the first nine months of the event, from June to February.
• Nigeria is projected to face the largest toll in the Sahel, with 31,400 additional heat deaths. Indonesia, India and Brazil also rank among the most affected countries.
• The researchers describe the temperatures as a preview of conditions expected about 20 years from now.