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.

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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.

Weather-changing El Niño oscillation is at least 250 million years old Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places ...

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 ...

“It’s not as big of a player as it used to be,” Ms. L’Heureux of said El Niño and La Niña, known collectively as ENSO, for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

More information: Shiv Priyam Raghuraman et al, The 2023 global warming spike was driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2024). DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-11275 ...