Both phases are part of the El Niño-Southern ... tropical Pacific. The effects of each ENSO event vary based on the event’s intensity and timing, but NOAA’s diagrams summarize general ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

Diagram image courtesy of ... Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world.

The current El Niño event is almost over, but the warming will persist. The effects of the El Niño event currently bringing extreme moisture to the southwestern U.S. are expected to linger for ...

Related: Climate change: Causes and effects According to scientists ... Forecasters issued an El Nino Advisory, noting that El Nino conditions are present. If they continue through October ...

which can have far-reaching effects on global weather patterns. Describing it simply, El Nino is when the ocean in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean gets warmer than usual. Whereas ...

Recent WASDE reports had assumed another record Brazilian soybean crop and Argentina returning to normal, but the El Niño weather ... and rain in the south. The effect in Argentina is a wetter ...

A strong El Niño effect has brought warmth across the Midwest over the last few months, sending Cedar Rapids on its way to its warmest winter on record. Meteorologists forecast the weather ...

Scientists and meteorologists around the world expect a major disruption to weather patterns with global reverberations will likely return this year. After three straight years of La Niña, El ...

absent El Niño and La Niña are two extremes that have far-reaching effects on our weather here in Canada and around the world. These spells of abnormally warm and cool waters in the eastern ...