Life on Earth runs on cycles,day and night, seasons, and tides. But one of the most powerful and far-reaching climate cycles ...

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 ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on ...

The cycle revolves around two phases: El Niño warm phases and La Niña cold phases. An El Niño is declared when sea temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) above average.

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 ...

El Niño (Spanish for “little boy”) and La Niña (“little girl”) are part of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, which is the result of variation in ocean temperatures in the ...

Summary A strong El Niño, followed by a strong La Niña, will result in severe weather anomalies around the global that can be predicted to affect the production of various commodities.

El Niño is part of a cycle that includes La Niña, which is when the waters in the eastern Pacific are cooler than usual. According to NOAA data from 1896 to 2022, El Niño and La Niña years ...

A shift away from this year's La Nina to El Nino could dramatically alter temperature and extreme weather patterns—and global warming may play a role. Changes are brewing in the equatorial ...

“El Nino and La Nina seem to have their own separate mechanisms,” says Meehl, “but the solar maximum can come along and tilt the probabilities toward a weak La Nina.

El Niño and La Niña events have been influencing the global weather for at least 250 million years. Understanding the past can help us understand the future. El Niño cycles are millions of ...