El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is ...

E​l Niño could be gone in a month and La Niña is still expected sometime this summer, according to a just-released government outlook. That may have important ramifications on the 2024 hurricane ...

The El Niño event is spawned by warmer than average temperatures in the Central Pacific called the "Nino 3.4" region. When sea surface temperatures are warm here by more than 0.5C or higher for a few ...

Five major El Niño events per century could lead to fewer fishes that thrive in cold water and more terrestrial birds in eastern coastal ecosystems. Margaret Osborne is a freelance science journalist ...

Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

The tropical Pacific Ocean continues to trend toward a La Niña phase, coming out of one of the strongest El Niño events on record since 1950. Spring Forecast Barrier Makes it Hard to Predict ...

As a result, it is expected that both the month of October and the entire season is likely to receive above-average rainfall, which remains linked to the ongoing El Nino event," Kenya Met said.

Climate experts are continuously monitoring the developments of the 2015–16 El Niño, which is one of the most severe events in the past 50 years and, notably, the largest since the 1997–98 episode ...

India awaits monsoon forecast with anxiety, pondering El Niño or La Niña impact on 2025-2026 weather patterns.

Its scientific basis lies in the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere. During an El Niño event trade winds that typically blow from east to west weaken or reverse causing the warm water ...