The El Niño weather phase, which began in summer 2023, has now come to an end, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology says. It helped to boost global temperatures to record levels in recent months ...

Conventional knowledge in California about whether significant rainfall is in store for any given year has largely been tied up in the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. But a new study ...

A typical La Niña pattern produces a wetter, cooler winter over the northern U.S., while drier, milder weather takes hold of ...

Here's how the Pacific El Nino and La Nina weather phases can influence extreme weather globally. As is typical of La Nina, the Pacific trade winds that blow east-west — and which weaken during ...

La Niña, the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters, has finally arrived, but forecasters predict it is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as typically seen.

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

A pineapple express is a type of strong atmospheric river that carries moisture toward the western U.S., bringing the risk of ...

ENSO-neutral conditions are expected to emerge in the Pacific Ocean sometime soon. Here's what it means for weather in the ...

While the last frost of the season may occur later than usual, spring in 2025 is expected to be warmer than average.

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 ...