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.

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 ...

After a four-year break, El Niño is back, leaving many to wonder what it means for California’s upcoming winter. El Niño is the temporary warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator… ...

El Nino often has major weather implications around the world from floods in some areas to droughts in others. It also tends to raise the average global temperatures as well, often leading to ...

A strong El Niño is when the Niño region averages 1.0 degrees Celsius warmer than normal. The current forecast has the El Niño topping out around 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than normal this winter.

“The development of an El Niño will most likely lead to a new spike in global heating and increase the chance of breaking temperature records,” said Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of ...

A security guard wipes sweat from his brow in Beijing, on July 3, 2023. Record-breaking heat is unfolding around the world because of human-caused climate change and the cyclic climate pattern El ...

El Niño, the climate pattern that brings drier and warmer than usual weather to the Northern U.S. and Canada and wetter than usual conditions to the Gulf Coast and Southeast, has officially ...

El Niño and La Niña in 2023. El Niño events are usually linked to an increase in rainfall and even flooding in parts of the southern U.S., southern South America, the Horn of Africa and Central ...

Flooding is possible but not likely, according to John Nielsen-Gammon, professor of meteorology at Texas A&M and the Texas state climatologist, who noted that an El Niño event in 1991 caused ...