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 can form. When temperatures are at or near ...

Now let us compare that to La Niña. La Niña is essentially the opposite of El Niño, meaning cooler than normal ocean waters, leading to stronger winds and usually less hurricane activity for ...

In 2025, another phenomenon known as La ... of El Niño, should be cooler. 2016 was an El Niño year and at the time it was the warmest year on record for global temperature. In comparison to ...

The 2025 hurricane season is off to a busy start in the Eastern Pacific, with three tropical cyclones already having ...

catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in the coming months. But this so-called super El Niño’s strength won’t ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

The climate pattern that tends to bring drier, warmer conditions to the southern half of the United States and wetter weather to the northern half has ended, NOAA said Thursday. By Livia Albeck ...

(NEXSTAR) – You may have heard La Niña is over, and El Niño is getting ready to move in. It’s one thing to understand what that means for our weather, but what do the words “El Niño ...

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say conditions will likely switch to a La Niña pattern by the end of the summer. El Niño is marked by warmer than normal ...

Considered “no man’s land” where neither El Niño nor La Niña is present over the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean. Sea surface temperatures remain near average. That, too ...