El Niño is a seasonal shift in Pacific Ocean temperatures that can suppress hurricanes, change rainfall patterns and bend the jet stream. Its cold-water counterpart, La Niña, tends to do the opposite: ...

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issued its final La Niña Advisory on Thursday ... Typically, there are fewer changes in the jet stream, meaning more regional patterns may dominate local ...

La Niña, the natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Niño climate phenomenon, has dwindled away after just three months. The La Niña that appeared in January, months later than ...

La Niña tends to pound these regions with cold and wet snow storms due to a northerly jet stream that acts as a powder producing ... out the possibility of the phenomenon affecting weather patterns ...

WASHINGTON — La Niña has left the building — but that doesn’t mean Mother Nature is taking a break. The globe is now in a weather limbo known as La Nada, or ENSO-neutral, where Pacific ...

The weather pattern has caused serious drought and heat wave after heat wave. In this First Warning Weather University lesson, Chief Meteorologist David Yeomans explores what La Niña is and its ...

We all need something to believe in. As one end of the ENSO climatic pattern, La Niña occurs when ocean temperatures across the central and eastern tropical Pacific go cold. This pushes the Pacific ...

El Niño is a seasonal shift in Pacific Ocean temperatures that can suppress hurricanes, change rainfall patterns and bend the jet stream. Its cold-water counterpart, La Niña, tends to do the ...

As of late March, sea-surface temperatures in the region of the equatorial Pacific have shifted closer to average, signaling the end of a weak La ... the jet stream, meaning more regional patterns ...

It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, and how might long-term climate change affect El Niño and La Niña patterns?