El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

As the temperature dipped in the Northern Hemisphere over December 2024 , a delayed La Nina weather event finally arrived in the tropical Pacific Ocean, say meteorologists.   Marked by colder surface ...

Large hail and tornado events are more common in the central and southern United States during the spring months if La Niña ...

A weak La Nina event has arrived in the Pacific, bringing colder waters and potentially cooler weather. Despite being delayed and relatively weak, La Nina may bring intense storms and rainfall ...

anuary 2025 was the hottest on record, reaching a whole 1.7 degrees above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year thanks to the natural La ...

Understanding the Enigma of El Niño El Niño is a fascinating climate phenomenon that impacts weather and ecosystems worldwide. It's characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the central ...

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.

El Nino's cooler flip side, a La Nina, tends to dampen the effects of global warming a bit, making record temperatures far less likely. A La Nina started in January after brewing for months.

The La Nina and El Nino weather phases are part of the so-called ... saw intense flooding due in part to the effects of El NinoImage: AFP/Getty Images Meanwhile, the absence of warm water in ...

El Nino peaked more than a year ago, Burgess noted. The global average temperature in January was 1.75C higher than in pre-industrial times. Copernicus assesses that La Nina has not yet fully ...

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly ...