La Niña tends to make Western Africa wet, but Eastern Africa, around Somalia, dry. The opposite happens in El Niño with drought-struck Somalia likely to get steady “short rains,” Ehsan said.

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.

Instead, it heats the sea surface temperatures to well above normal. When neither La Niña nor El Niño is present and the water is considered around average, this phase is called ENSO Neutral.

La Niña is the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. During this time, there are cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Central and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

La Nina usually equals a busier than normal hurricane season. Forecast: The experts at NOAA and the Climate Prediction Center say that we are currently in a "neutral phase." ...

A flip from El Nino to La Nina could mean a complete reversal from last winter's warm weather in Upstate New York, said Art Degaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center.

Bye bye, El Nino. Cooler hurricane-helping La Nina to replace the phenomenon that adds heat to Earth SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Jun 13, 2024 Jun 13, 2024 0 Oneindia - English ...