A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause ...

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of the Pacific Ocean had ...

A detailed analysis found La Niña began in December 2024 with a weak La Niña favored during the rest of this winter.

El Niño often leads to rainier weather in the United States, and tends to increase temperatures globally, while La Niña has the opposite effect.

Once the La Nina pattern transitions to a neutral pattern, we are expected to stay there for the bulk of 2025. There is no ...

Axios Visuals A few months later and weaker than expected, the tropical Pacific Ocean has officially tipped into La Niña conditions, which can influence weather patterns globally, NOAA declared ...

Australia's weather is influenced by many climate drivers. El Niño and La Niña have perhaps the strongest influence on year-to-year climate variability in Australia. They are a part of a natural cycle ...

Sustained negative values (bottom/yellow) of the SOI below −7 may indicate El Niño, while sustained positive values above +7 may indicate La Niña.

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — New research shows that the sweeping land use changes and irrigation of the U.S. Corn Belt, along with the influence of the area's shallow ... Floods Linked to Rise in US Deaths ...