Its delayed arrival may have been influenced by the world's oceans being much warmer the last few years, said Michelle L'Heureux, head of NOAA's El Nino team. “It’s totally not clear why this ...
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 ...
The pattern had been predicted to form for several months, and weak La Niña conditions were finally officially met this week.
After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases ...
Last winter—affected by El Niño—was the warmest on record in the U.S., with temperatures across the lower 48 states measuring 5.4 degrees higher than average, according to NOAA. Several ...
The planet-cooling climate pattern known as La Niña is here, scientists said Thursday, but it cannot prevent 2025 from being one of the hottest years on record.
Its delayed arrival may have been influenced — or masked — by the world’s oceans being much warmer the last few years, said Michelle L’Heureux, head of NOAA’s El Nino team.
Its delayed arrival may have been influenced — or masked — by the world’s oceans being much warmer the last few years, said Michelle L’Heureux, head of NOAA’s El Niño team.