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.

In fact, 2022 was the warmest La Niña on record, and adding the additional heat of El Niño means the next year or two will likely climb even higher on the list of hottest years on record.

There is arguably nothing more influential in determining how active the Atlantic hurricane season will be than El Niño and La Niña. La Niñas typically cause more active seasons than El Niño ...

WASHINGTON — After three nasty years, the La Niña weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

El Nino and La Nina are key players in forecasting how active a hurricane season will be. Meteorologist Courteney Jacobazzi explains what the two phases entail.

It's official: El Niño is gone. We're now under ENSO conditions. And get ready, because chances are high La Niña will be here during the peak of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Let's explain ...

Episodes of El Niño and La Niña typically last nine to 12 months but can sometimes last for years. According to Xia, the incidence of hurricanes is higher during the neutral phase, or when ...

The black box is the Nino 3.4 Region, the area scientists monitor to gauge the strength of an El Niño or La Niña. Of course, neutral is somewhere between these warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña ...

The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. It’s cool flip side, La Nina, is likely to breeze in just in time for peak ...