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Fact check: What are El Niño and La Niña and could they impact the climate in 2025?
Soaring temperatures in 2024 were partly boosted by climate conditions known as El Niño (Spanish for "the boy"), according to ...
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La Niña Has Arrived—Here’s What To Expect
An El Niño weather pattern—La Niña’s counterpart—brought the warmest winter on record last year. La Niña conditions emerged in December and will likely persist through April, though the ...
NorCal rain and snow pauses are normal during winter. Here's what history shows
These weeks-long precipitation pauses are a normal part of winter for this region. Over the past 20 years, the average length ...
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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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Fact check: What are El Niño and La Niña and could they impact the climate in 2025?
El Niño and La Niña are two opposing climate conditions in the Pacific Ocean that affect the weather across the globe. Trade winds in the Pacific tend to blow from east to west, pushing warm ...
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La Niña has arrived. Here’s what that means for the US
Forecasters closely monitor La Niña and its counterpart El Niño because they influence global weather in a way that’s largely consistent and predictable well in advance – especially when the ...