how the spring predictability barrier impacts la nina, el nina forecasts The ENSO is considered to be in a neutral state when regions of the central and eastern Pacific have anomalies between 0.5 ...

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: ...

Whether we’re in a La Niña year, El Niño year or neither is determined by sea surface temperatures near the equator over the Pacific Ocean. The temperature of the water and air above it can ...

One to 4 tropical cyclones are forecasted to form or move into the Central Pacific basin this hurricane season.

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 ...

Hurricane season is just weeks away, and the Pacific Ocean is cooling off again. That’s important because it can create conditions more conducive to hurricanes.

Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific for changes that could impact this year's hurricane season.

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 ...

NEW DELHI: La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean that generally favour good monsoon rains in India have ended, the US govt agencies declared late Thursday, with the world’s largest ocean ...

As of late March, sea-surface temperatures in the region of the equatorial Pacific have shifted ... in the vast stretch of ocean, forecasts become less dependable. A La Nina tends to bring drier ...

Signals of a slowly developing and "unusual" La Niña strengthened over the winter, but began to falter in recent months. By March it was dead. El Niño is a seasonal shift in Pacific Ocean ...