Predicting the weather is a hard job. So hard that it is a common joke to make about meteorologists being wrong more than ...

La Niña is simply the opposite of El Niño. correction A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Nathan Lenssen as a climate scientist at the University of Colorado.

La Niña typically leads to a much more active hurricane season while El Niño is more prone to suppressing hurricane activity – except for in 2023. Forecasters need to factor in other ...

El Niño and La Niña drive seasonal weather patterns over Canada and across the world. Explore these high-impact events and how they affect weather here at home.

La Niña and its opposing climate pattern El Niño can impact weather, wildfires, ecosystems and economies worldwide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). What ...

La Nina is opposite of El Nino in that the water is cooling off the coast of South America. Stronger trade winds cool sea surface temperatures. As a result, storm tracks in the Northern Hemisphere ...

El Nino and La Nina Warming sea surfaces in the tropical Pacific, in an image released July 5th, 2012. There's a greater than 50 percent chance that El Niño conditions will develop during the ...

Learn how El Nino and La Nina can contribute to severe weather leading to heavy storms in some regions and droughts in others. Read about the causes and effects of El Nino and La Nina.

Still, the latest ENSO Outlook clearly favors either an ENSO Neutral pattern leading into next winter, or a second La Niña in a row. The lowest odds, ~20%, for a flip toward an El Niño pattern ...

Now, neither La Niña nor its counterpart El Niño are present and a so-called neutral phase has begun, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report.