El Niño is a climate phenomenon characterized by the warming of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific ...

From the intense heat in the South to the drought ... It’s pretty consistent with El Niño to have a big ridge of high pressure that comes out of Central America. And at times, we’ve seen ...

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

It circumnavigates the planet from west to east on the equator. In its active phase, it can trigger or add fuel to El Nino fire ... is inbound for the US West Coast, if you believe the models.

The effects of both El Nino and La Nina can vary considerably, and don't affect every region ... the warmer water remains in South America and fails to travel west. As the warmth suppresses ...

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 ...

Under normal conditions, prevailing winds blow from east to west ... El Niño sees this wind pattern break down or even reverse, allowing unusually warm water to pool up off the coast of South ...