El Niño and La Niña transitions affect tropical cyclone development half a world away. ... Getting a longer heads-up on El Nino. Oct 15, 2018. La Nina develops during peak hurricane season. Sep ...

Meteorologists say a weak La Nina weather event has arrived but will bring fewer storms than usual. Here's how the Pacific El ...

Reports of a rare summer La Niña are premature. It is also foolish to look at such climate drivers in isolation. But seasonal forecasting is becoming more complicated as the planet warms.

El Niño and La Niña are two opposing climate conditions in the Pacific Ocean that affect the weather across the globe. Trade winds in the Pacific tend to blow from east to west, pushing warm ...

Learn about El Niño and La Niña, two distinct weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, and their profound effects on the global climate through the ENSO cycle.

New modeling research has shown that the natural global climate phenomena known as El Niño and its cold counterpart, La Niña, have been occurring for the last 250 million years.

A strong El Nino or La Nina in the Pacific Ocean can bring big changes in temperatures, wind patterns and rainfall patterns to South America. When this occurs, forecasters can more easily tell if ...

But amid a relatively weak and brief El Niño in 2018 and 2019, La Niña persisted for three years in what climate scientists called a rare “triple-dip” La Niña, from 2020 through 2023.

The last three transition years where we went from an El Niño Winter to a La Niña Summer were 2007, 2010, and 2016. Rain amounts during those years were either near normal, or well above normal ...

Bye bye, El Nino. Cooler hurricane-helping La Nina to replace the phenomenon that adds heat to Earth. SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Jun 13, 2024 Jun 13, 2024 Updated May ...