Australia's weather is influenced by many climate drivers. El Niño and La Niña have perhaps the strongest influence on year-to-year climate variability in Australia. They are a part of a natural cycle ...

the Southern Africa region is out of an El Niño cycle, which typically brings drought and has had a devastating impact on agriculture in the 2023-24 summer season; (2) there is reason to be optimistic ...

The planet-cooling climate pattern known as La Niña is here, scientists said Thursday, but it cannot prevent 2025 from being ...

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 ...

NOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will ...

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.

A detailed analysis found La Niña began in December 2024 with a weak La Niña favored during the rest of this winter.

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 ...

If you live in a city where a meteorologist mentions an "La Niña" or "El Niño" it is important to distinguish the difference ...

La Niña is considered the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is characterized by lower-than-average sea-surface temperatures, with anomalies of at least -0.5 degrees Celsius (-0 ...

Soaring temperatures in 2024 were partly boosted by climate conditions known as El Niño (Spanish for "the boy"), according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s data analysis. In 2025, another ...

Let’s dig into what this La Niña means for the mid-season snow forecast. La Niña is one half of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle—when the east-central tropical Pacific turns cooler than ...