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

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

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 ...

For instance, El Niño usually brings with it hotter, dryer conditions to the northwestern US and unusually high levels of rain to the southern US. In contrast, La Niña produces dryer conditions ...

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 ...

After three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended ... is generally much more impacted with El Nino conditions bringing higher than normal precipitation ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...