El Nino years are common enough ... As you see in the above diagram, air sinks down around roughly 30 degrees latitude and creates large, semi-permanent areas of high pressure, like the Bermuda ...

particularly in areas that already experience above-average temperatures during El Nino,” Michelle L’Heureux, a climate scientist at the Climate Prediction Center said. Scientists have been ...

This page contains information on El Niño, La Niña ... including here in Canada. Diagram image courtesy of NOAA. Under normal conditions, prevailing winds blow from east to west across the ...

Fall has only just begun, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially since this one may look drastically different than recent years because of El Niño. This winter will be the ...

El Niño—the natural climate phenomenon of warm temperature in the Pacific Ocean—has officially begun, and it’s sure to affect weather patterns globally in conjunction with climate change ...

El Niño has officially come to an end and the ripples from its demise will shake up weather around the globe. With El Niño out of the spotlight, its opposite is preparing to take center stage ...

El Nino developing around the Pacific equator in 2023 (NOAA) In December 1997, 7 inches of rain fell in parts of Orange County in one day. February 1998 brought more than 13 inches of rain to ...

El Niño is making its comeback – and making itself at home. National forecasters said on Thursday that the climate pattern system, known for bringing record rainfall in South America, more ...

Are you ready for this summer's weather "buzz" word? The National Weather Service officially declared the start of El Nino Thursday. El Nino is a naturally occurring, climate phenomenon that ...

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits. When you purchase ...

More hot weather is expected for much of the United States in the coming months, federal forecasters warn, driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and the El Niño climate pattern.

Neutral conditions prevail when El Niño and La Niña are (temporarily) absent El Niño and La Niña are two extremes that have far-reaching effects on our weather here in Canada and around the world.