Brace for a stretch of potentially wet and wild weather: Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center issued an advisory on Thursday stating that the current El Niño event could prove to be one of the strongest in recent history. The new forecast says that the current El Niño “has strengthened over the past month,” and as a result, it is expected to “intensify through 2026,” and is likely to “continue through early 2027.”  “There is an 81% chance