The veteran rice and sugarcane farmer from Thailand’s northeast has experienced unpredictable weather and extreme events disrupting his planting seasons for many years. What lies in store over the next year - a so-called “Super El Nino” bringing expected severe heat and drought right across Southeast Asia - has him more worried than ever. Southeast Asia is on alert for what experts say is potentially one of the most heightened versions of the El Nino phenomenon ever recorded. While Super El Nino events have occurred in the past, those happened before the world reached current temperatures,” said Seree Supratid, director at the Climate Change and Disaster Center at Rangsit University. El Nino typically reaches its peak between November and February.