The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in ...

Rippey says just like the impacts of El Niño are still being felt four months after its peak, the claws of La Niña may not come until fall. “Even if we make that transition into La Niña by ...

Now, Ms. L’Heureux said, “El Niño and La Niña are just changing the details.” Austyn Gaffney is a reporter covering climate and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program ...

Both of these cycles have longstanding climate patterns. Scientists stunned after satellite data unveils new information about El Niño and La Niña: 'We've learned a great deal' first appeared on The ...

Below is the chance of El Niño, neutral conditions and La Niña from now to October, November and December. Notice by June, July, August there is a 63 percent chance of La Niña taking over.

A strong El Niño pattern has been in place over the Pacific Ocean during the 2023-2024 winter season. This year's winter impacts of warmer weather may vary wildly as the Pacific Northwest ...

El Niño and La Niña — opposing extremes that cycle with each other as sea surface temperatures, rainfall, air pressure and atmospheric circulation vary — play a major role in global ...

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.

I’ve also identified this warm and dry possibility with my experience of a few years of El Niño to La Niña in summer. The summers of 1988 and 1995 had this situation. Both were memorable hot ...

The last three transition years where we went from an El Niño Winter to a La Niña Summer were 2007, 2010, and 2016. Rain amounts during those years were either near normal, or well above normal ...