Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0828-7, published online 29 June 2020.

In the version of this News & Views article originally published, in the sentence beginning “Phase 1 exhibits convection...”, the first mention of ‘Pacific Ocean’ should have been ‘Indian Ocean’. The sentence should have read “Phase 1 exhibits convection and rainfall over the Indian Ocean, and the phase number increases as it travels east, eventually reaching the central Pacific Ocean in phase 8.” The online versions of the News & Views article have been corrected.