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How absence of El Nino, La Nina could influence active Atlantic hurricane season forecast
The 2025 hurricane season is off to a busy start in the Eastern Pacific, with three tropical cyclones already having ...
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El Niño and La Niña, Explained
When sea-surface temperatures are above average by about 1 degree Fahrenheit or more, El Niño can develop. When temperatures are below average, La Niña ... law in U.S. history.
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What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change the weather?
El Niño is part of the natural climate phenomenon called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It has two opposite states: El Niño and La Niña ... rings and other historical evidence ...
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Column: Good riddance to El Niño, but La Niña won’t be much relief
The good news is that El Niño is rapidly giving way to his cooler sister, La Niña. The bad news is ... the worst coral-reef bleaching event in history, to name just a few outcomes.
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Goodbye, El Niño. Hello, La Niña? The Big Transition to La Niña is Already Underway
Snodgrass looked back at history, and he says every time El Niño peaked at Christmas then faded until it was eventually replaced by La Niña in summer, it created a drought scenario in the Cotton ...
Los Angeles Times12mon
El Niño makes an exit, but La Niña could bring dry conditions back to California
In fact, it is somewhat uncommon for ENSO to flip from El Niño to La Niña within a year, happening only 10 times in the historical record, Rebecca Lindsey of NOAA’s Climate Program Office ...
The Washington Post11mon
La Niña is coming. Here’s how it could change the weather.
El Niño often ushers in episodes of La Niña because it releases vast amounts of heat from the eastern Pacific, making for a quick transition to the cooler conditions of La Niña. Off-the-charts ...
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La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weather
Without them, when ENSO is neutral, they're left squinting into the future with little more than historical averages and climate trends. "Without an El Niño or a La Niña, a range of other ...
Live Science11mon
El Nino and La Nina
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 ...