La Niña threshold crossed, but time running out for it to affect South Africa as summer starts drawing to a close ...

If we cross that threshold, the impacts will only worsen. Scientists issue dire warning after analyzing data from 2024: '[It] ...

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

Australia’s southeast sweltered in a heatwave on Monday, raising the bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire ...

Kenny Blumenfeld, a senior climatologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, said 1878 and 1931 were both strong El ... summer temperatures. “It wasn’t an abnormally hot summer ...

One water manager described the situation — below-normal snowpack coupled with a statewide drought emergency — as "ominous." ...

An unusually powerful and resilient marine heat wave contributed to keeping the region toasty. But it wasn’t the only factor.

The El Niño climate driver also ... The hottest was 2019, when a blisteringly hot and dry spring led to the widespread bushfires of the Black Summer. Unlike 2019, Australia had a wetter than ...

It is by no means a "bummer summer" despite the cool temperatures and wet weather seen by much of the country since Christmas, a forecaster says. Warmer temperatures and drier weather were set to ...

In general, decreased cloud cover results in warmer-than-average daytime temperatures, particularly in the spring and summer months ... Further north, El Niño is associated with both an increase in ...

How warm was 2024? By March, just three months into the year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had already estimated a 55% chance that 2024 would be the warmest year on record ...