El Niño is starting to lose strength after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful − an atmospheric scientist explains what’s ahead for 2024
Wild weather has been roiling North America for the past few months, thanks in part to a strong El Niño that sent ...
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What is El Niño and La Niña?
A vast spot in the Pacific Ocean called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation effects weather the world over. This spot is famous for creating oscillating weather patterns known as El Niño and La Niña.
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La Niña Arrives: What Forecasters Predict of Climate Pattern
The last El Niño, the periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters, finished in June 2024. NOAA forecasters have been expecting La Niña for months. The previous La Niña concluded in 2023 after an ...
El Nino or climate change? Climatologist says weather impacted by both
The winter weather of 2023-24 has been an oddity in every sense of the word. The Twin Cities area has barely seen any snow, and record-breaking warm temperatures have continued from December, when ...
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NOAA says La Nina ocean cooling has finally arrived, but it's weak and may cause fewer problems
La Nina, the flip side of the better-known El Nino, is an irregular rising of unusually cold water in a key part of the central equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide.
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‘Unusual’ and weak La Niña confirmed, offers cooling respite after record El Niño
It’s official: a weak La Niña came into fruition in late December and is expected, with significant uncertainty, to last until sometime between February and April, the U.S. National Oceanic and ...