North China was hit by a devastating drought in the summer of 2015, affecting about 21 million people and 3.4 million hectares of crops in seven provinces. The direct economic loss reached up to 11.48 billion RMB. Meanwhile, a super El Niño developed, which resulted in widespread droughts and floods around the globe. With a good prediction of the 2015/16 super El Niño, NCEP’s Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) roughly captured the extreme summer drought over North China. This raises the question of whether the 2015/16 super El Niño helped the forecasting of the 2015 extreme summer drought.