Following the powerful El Niño of 2023–2024, one of the most intense in recent memory, climate scientists are now turning their eyes toward La Niña, which may shape Earth’s fate in 2025. With NOAA ...

Both of these cycles have longstanding climate patterns. Scientists stunned after satellite data unveils new information ...

El Nino and La Nina not only disrupt weather patterns but also play a role in triggering agricultural, public health, political, and economic issues.

After three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended and El Niño is on the way, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

In fact, 2022 was the warmest La Niña on record, and adding the additional heat of El Niño means the next year or two will likely climb even higher on the list of hottest years on record.

After the “super” El Niño of 1997-98, the thermocline rose by more than 40 meters (130 feet), and the subsequent La Niña lasted for three years. The El Niño of 2015-16 was just as strong as ...

As the transition to La Niña occurs, El Niño will weaken, but its impacts on U.S. weather are expected to persist through April, the Climate Prediction Center said in a statement Thursday.

WASHINGTON — After three nasty years, the La Niña weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

“The old La Niña playbook and the old El Niño playbook don’t seem to be as reliable as they used to be,” said Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Jose State University.