El Niño and La Niña drive seasonal weather patterns over Canada and across the world. Explore these high-impact events and how they affect weather here at home.

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 ...

El Niño southern oscillation. October 2011. Tuvalu drought could be dry run for dealing with climate change. Tiny nation is suffering from severe La Niña pattern but its problems run deeper with ...

The next El Niño Southern Oscillation can be predicted more than two years in advance, according to a new study that looked at thousands of years of past climate data. In the contiguous U.S ...

El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or “ENSO” for short.

El Niño and La Niña are parts of an oscillation in the ocean-atmosphere system (called the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO cycle) that can impact weather and climate conditions across the ...

Understanding the forced response of El Niño‒Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to ... between the changes in these ENSO processes and those in ENSO amplitude is illustrated in Figure 4 using scatter ...

El Niño–southern oscillation caused the spike in 2023 temperatures, new study found Researchers modeled climate to understand what contributed to the rapid warming of the planet last year ...

Persistently active El Niño–Southern Oscillation since the Mesozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (45) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404758121 Cite This Page : ...

Climate scientists warn the extreme temperatures could bring deadly wildfires, tropical cyclones and intense heatwaves to some parts of the planet thanks to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, a ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 10 a.m. EDT. on July 12 to note that the El Niño Southern Oscillation climate cycle, not a specific El Niño event, can be predicted well in advance.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 10:00 a.m. E.D.T. on Friday, July 12 to note that the El Niño Southern Oscillation climate cycle, not a specific El Niño event, can be predicted well in ...