El Niño is a climate phenomenon characterized by the warming of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. This anomaly affects global ... Read more The post What El Niño ...

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 ...

Wild weather has been roiling North America for the past few months, thanks in part to a strong El Niño that sent ...

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 ...

La Niña, the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters, has finally arrived, but forecasters predict it is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as typically seen.

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 ...

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 ...