Blame El Niño!" A luxury home in the Orange County suburb of Laguna Niguel slips down a hillside eroded by heavy El Nino-generated rains, on March 19, 1998. (Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images) ...

The WMO said there is a 90 per cent probability this latest El Niño event will continue through the second half of 2023 and is expected to be at least of "moderate strength." The world's hottest ...

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One of the highest-impact El Niños on record unfolded during the winter of 1997-98. Among many global impacts, a barrage of storms unleashed deadly flooding in California, bringing Los Angeles and San ...

El Niño events that result from this breakdown typically last about a year or less, but some events, such as one in the mid-1980s, have stuck around for longer than a year and a half.

However, as El Niño continues, he said there is a high probability that B.C. could see conditions similar to 2016 — the world’s hottest year on record — when warmer temperatures coincided ...

Currently, the classic El Niño pattern is in place with the warmest sea surface temperature anomalies in the eastern Pacific. Therefore, we expect that much of Canada will see a slow start to winter.

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, is a phenomenon that can change atmospheric circulation, which can cause cooler or warmer weather. There are three states: El Niño, La Niña and neutral.

The last significant El Niño was in 2009-2010, though it wasn’t as major as the one in 1997-1998. Before that one, the 1982-1983 El Niño was the largest of the 20th century.

Climate scientists are predicting that 2023 could be an El Niño year, which means this year may be warmer than normal. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, is a phenomenon that can change ...

El Niño has arrived! That is something we know for certain. But, what does that mean for Canada's upcoming winter? Past data indicates that El Niño winters tend to be relatively mild across the ...