Following the powerful El Niño of 2023–2024, one of the most intense in recent memory, climate scientists are now turning ...

La Niña is about eight times more likely to occur than El Niño. Typically, that means a warmer and drier winter for Texas.

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year — El Niño — is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way. Whether that’s a relief or not depends ...

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 ...

Weather El Niño is ending, La Niña is coming; Why it matters Published: May. 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m. By Mark Torregrossa | [email protected] ...

Rippey says just like the impacts of El Niño are still being felt four months after its peak, the claws of La Niña may not come until fall. “Even if we make that transition into La Niña by ...

The last three transition years where we went from an El Niño Winter to a La Niña Summer were 2007, 2010, and 2016. Rain amounts during those years were either near normal, or well above normal ...

How El Niño and La Nina Are Different El Niño: The sea’s surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to above-average temperatures.

What to expect ahead: The demise of El Niño is expected to occur by early summer, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. NOAA gives a 60% chance of La Niña developing between June and ...

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.