El Nino and La Nina not only disrupt weather patterns but also play a role in triggering agricultural, public health, political, and economic issues.

El Niño and La Niña sometimes don’t follow the expected patterns. And strength matters: A strong El Niño, for instance (as measured by how high sea-surface temperatures are above normal) ...

Following the powerful El Niño of 2023–2024, one of the most intense in recent memory, climate scientists are now turning their eyes toward La Niña, which may shape Earth’s fate in 2025. With NOAA ...

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 ...

La Niña is out and El Niño may be coming, and here’s what that means for our weather February 9, 2017 More than 8 years ago NOAA visualization of El Niño.

La Niña essentially gets its name from being the opposite of El Niño. It has also been called “El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply a ‘cold event,'” NOAA says.

After three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended and El Niño is on the way, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

“The old La Niña playbook and the old El Niño playbook don’t seem to be as reliable as they used to be,” said Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Jose State University.

(CNN) — The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to ...