El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.

New modeling research has shown that the natural global climate phenomena known as El Niño and its cold counterpart, La Niña, have been occurring for the last 250 million years. Although these ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the Southwestern United States, respectively. In 2023, however, a La Niña year ...

El Niño events typically occur every 2-7 years. The last El Niño event was the winter of 2018-2019. ... (2023). La Nina and El Nino Effect in India. [online] Available at: https: ...

The chance of the ocean-warming event known as El Niño hitting this year is now over 90%. It will likely begin in the coming months, and there is a good chance it will persist into 2024 and have ...

A quick flip from El Niño to La Niña is coming soon, but what does that mean for ... (versus the average of 3.2). This year may look similar to 2010 and 2020, both of which were busy storm ...

The Pacific Ocean covers 32% of Earth’s surface area, more than all the land combined. Unsurprisingly, its activity affects conditions around the globe.

The last three transition years where we went from an El Niño Winter to a La Niña Summer were 2007, 2010, and 2016. Rain amounts during those years were either near normal, or well above normal ...

An El Nino often lasts between nine months to two years. The opposite of El Nino is a La Nina. La Nina, which is Spanish for “the girl,” is when cooler than average water temperatures for a ...

As they reach their peak in winter, El Niño usually brings cold and wet conditions to California and the Southern U.S., and often leads to warm, dry winter in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest.

El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.

In 1994, for example, Australian wheat production dropped nearly 50% but barely changed elsewhere. In 1982, when Australian production dropped 30%, Argentina's production was 50% higher.