The current El Niño has now attained "super" El Nino status, but its counterpart, La Niña, is expected later this year.
El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...
January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...
He points out with most models signaling the return of El Nino, it is also a hint of what type of growing conditions crops like corn could see this summer. “El Niño and the likelihood of it ...
Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...
Here's how the Pacific El Nino and La Nina weather phases can influence extreme weather globally. As is typical of La Nina, the Pacific trade winds that blow east-west — and which weaken during ...
La Niña is part of a natural climate dynamic, along with the better-known El Niño, called El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). La Niña is ENSO’s cool phase, while El Niño is its warm phase.
That was despite the world shifting from the El Nino warming pattern - which helped make 2024 the world's warmest year on record - and turning towards its cooler La Niña counterpart, which ...