A typical La Niña pattern produces a wetter, cooler winter over the northern U.S., while drier, milder weather takes hold of ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the El Niño event that gripped the Pacific Ocean over summer to be over. The southern oscillation index has returned to a "neutral" state, meaning ...

Conventional knowledge in California about whether significant rainfall is in store for any given year has largely been tied up in the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. But a new study ...

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

La Niña conditions finally emerged in late December, but they are likely to fade before you even notice their impact.

The tropical Pacific Ocean continues to trend toward a La Niña phase, coming out of one of the strongest El Niño events on record since 1950. Spring Forecast Barrier Makes it Hard to Predict ...

Meteorologists say a weak La Nina weather event has arrived but will bring fewer storms than usual. Here's how the Pacific El Nino and La Nina weather phases can influence extreme weather globally.

Japan's weather bureau reported no clear signs of El Nino or La Nina phenomena currently, although some La Nina characteristics are emerging. The bureau predicts a 60% probability of normal weather ...