A diagram of the patterns that create El Niño and La Niña over the Pacific Ocean. (NOAA) During normal conditions, prevailing winds blow from east to west, pushing surface water from South America ...

The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in ...

This Canadian winter has been warmer than usual, thanks to El Nino. But meteorologists are predicting that a La Nina event will be following soon, which could bring on more extreme weather than ...

El Niño and La Niña are opposing climate patterns that shift where rainfall occurs in tropics, said Michelle L’Heureux, a climate scientist at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center.

Watch all of this happen in the video above, which shows the decay of the 2009-2010 El Niño and the development of the 2010-2011 La Niña.

What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they affect our weather? The effects of El Niño are diminishing, making way for La Niña. By Mackenzie Rhode Published Apr 29, 2024 Last updated Apr 30 ...

What could happen to the weather in the coming months without La Niña and El Niño is less clear-cut, but forecasters are already making predictions. How hurricanes and temperatures could respond ...

El Nino and La Nina are two phases of a semi-regular temperature cycle in the tropical Pacific Ocean: El Nino is characterized by warmer-than-normal ocean surface temperatures in the eastern ...

After a strong El Nino, global weather is poised to transition to La Nina in the second half of 2024, a pattern typically bringing higher precipitation to Australia, Southeast Asia and India and ...

El Niño is gone. La Niña expected soon. Here's why Florida, hurricane-prone areas should care Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida Thu, June 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM UTC 6 min read ...

A 1999 economic study found that drought from La Nina cost the United States agriculture between $2.2 billion to $6.5 billion, which is far more than the $1.5 billion cost of El Nino.

La Niñas often produce the opposite weather patterns as El Niño, including a more active Atlantic hurricane season. La Niña conditions were in place for a portion of the most active Atlantic ...