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 ...

The latest forecast indicates La Niña conditions could return just in time for winter despite El Niño-Southern Oscillation-neutral conditions well past the end of summer, according to the National ...

Because of the potential for such warm ocean waters, many tropical waves that develop into storms have a higher probability ...

Around 64 per cent of the Indian population depends on farming, much of which is rain-fed. A good monsoon boosts crop yields, strengthens GDP and increases rural consumption. Conversely, delayed or ...

Early signs of a possible La Niña fall and winter are emerging in some climate models, federal forecasters announced Thursday July 10.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Scientists are warning that global warming is disrupting the natural rhythm of the El Niño-Southern ...

NOAA expects neutral ENSO conditions to continue in the Pacific through late 2025, with only a brief, weak La Niña possible ...

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 proved ...

As we head into the winter months, do you know the difference between an El Nino and a La Nina winter?

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.

El Niño and La Niña break these normal conditions, and a La Niña event is marked by even stronger trade winds than are normal. A La Niña pattern causes the jet stream to move northward.

La Niña letup. What does it mean for hurricane season? New forecasts issued today slow the transition to La Niña, but is it too little too late?