Both of these cycles have longstanding climate patterns. Scientists stunned after satellite data unveils new information ...

La Niña is the inverse counterpart to El Niño, known instead for cooler-than-normal waters along the equatorial Pacific and stronger-than-normal westerly winds across the Pacific. Advertisement ...

El Nino years are common enough, but "Super El Nino" occurrences are rare. advertisement. ... (the definition of an El Nino or La Nina episode) at super strength is yet to be seen.

There's now a 60% chance La Niña will develop between June and August and an 85% chance it's in effect by November 2024 to January 2025, according to NOAA. Goodbye, El Niño. Hello, La Niña?

La Niña is known for cooler-than-normal waters across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific and is associated with intense Atlantic hurricane seasons, mild and dry U.S. winters and wet ...

As La Niña ended, waters off South America began to warm. When the warmer than normal water reaches the Central Pacific, that's a sign El Niño might be on the way.

The Bureau of Meteorology is in discussions with international atmospheric agencies to overhaul how La Niña and El Niño are defined, potentially rewriting the record books of global weather history.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that every El Niño will be like 1997-98 when downtown LA picked up 30.57 inches of rain. Some El Niño seasons have been dry, some wet, and others are closer ...

The short-lived reign of La Niña has come to an end. La Niña – a natural climate pattern that can influence weather worldwide – arrived at the start of this year but had a very short and odd ...

El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.

Neutral conditions prevail when El Niño and La Niña are (temporarily) absent El Niño and La Niña are two extremes that have far-reaching effects on our weather here in Canada and around the ...