El Niño led to record-high sea surface temperatures (SST) in the Philippines, peaking at 30.45°C in June 2024. These ...

Windhoek’s 2025 rainfall is on track to become the second-highest annual total since at least 2008 – the earliest year for which consistent data ...

Two of the planet's most powerful natural climate influencers, El Niño and La Niña, have shaped global weather patterns for ...

Even though only 60% of deficit and surplus years have historically been accounted for by El Niño and La Niña events, respectively, they have been perceived as the harbingers of bad news or good ...

The team’s analysis revealed that roughly 32% of the ENSO years analyzed were what they termed “heretical,” meaning they went against the canonical patterns of precipitation expected from El Niño and ...

But despite this, 2025 is still likely to be among the three hottest years on record, according to the UK’s weather and climate agency, the Met Office. What are El Niño and La Niña?

El Niño events typically occur every 3 to 7 years and usually last between 9 to 12 months. The effects are often felt most acutely during the monsoon season (June to September), when rainfall ...

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.

The effects of both El Nino and La Nina can vary considerably, and don't affect every region of the world. They can also be influenced by other climate events.

El Niño and La Niña are powerful weather events that affect the U.S. Here's the difference and what La Niña could mean for Arizona weather this year.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 10 a.m. EDT. on July 12 to note that the El Niño Southern Oscillation climate cycle, not a specific El Niño event, can be predicted well in advance.