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 ...

SACRAMENTO - El Niño conditions continue to strengthen and some may see the return of an active winter. But could Northern California see any impacts? In a recent El Niño forecast by 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 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 ...

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.