La Niña is part of a natural climate dynamic, along with the better-known El Niño, called El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). La Niña is ENSO’s cool phase, while El Niño is its warm phase.

Soaring temperatures in 2024 were partly boosted by climate conditions known as El Niño (Spanish for "the boy"), according to ...

Also, the Climate Prediction Center favors predicting weak La Niña conditions through the early spring. La Niña is the opposite of El Niño. Trade winds are even stronger than usual during La ...

(Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)(AFP) The onset of La Nina (or its opposite phenomena, the El Nino) is usually tracked ... daily ERA5 data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows ...

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 ...

to provide a quick indication of the state of certain climate variables and climate indicators. To monitor the Pacific Ocean for signs of El Niño or La Niña, climatologists use several SST indices.

Vietnam’s 2025 weather patterns are expected to be highly unpredictable as La Niña remains active, affecting temperatures and precipitation. The cold wave remains intense, with the possibility of ...

StormTRACKER meteorologist Lydia Blume explains what La Niña conditions are and what that means for the northern Plains for the rest of the winter in terms of temperatures and precipitation.

LA — and much of the rest of the world — was built for a climate that no longer exists, said Goodell, a journalist and writer who has covered climate change and the environment for the past ...