GUANGZHOU, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- South China's Guangdong Province reported an average temperature of 22.6 degree Celsius in 2015, the second highest in history, due to the Super El Nino, the provincial meteorological bureau announced Tuesday.

The climate cycle, which started in May 2014 and bears all the hallmarks of a Super El Nino, will start to fade after this month and end by the end the spring, the bureau said.

The phenomenon brought more rainfall to the province in 2015. The average temperature last year is only 0.1 degree Celsius lower than the record high in 1998, which is 22.7 degree Celsius. And the average temperature in 31 cities, counties and districts hit record highs, according to the bureau.

A Super El Nino requires a 4 degree Celsius rise in the tropical waters of the Pacific, and 2 degree rise in the ocean along the equator.