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 ...

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon ...

Scientists said this was mainly driven by the ongoing rise in planet-heating emissions but was also coupled with the warming El Nino weather phenomenon in the pacific. Although last year was the ...

Understanding the weather patterns across the United States can be as puzzling as solving a complex jigsaw puzzle. While one ...

“Before, only isolated regions suffered drought cycles, but this time it is a general phenomenon,” she added ... including the “El Niño” which has upped temperatures and diminished ...

The term La Niña describes a particular phase of the ENSO climate cycle. ENSO is a coupled atmosphere-ocean phenomenon, which means that the transition between La Niña, El Niño and neutral conditions ...

The fate of the monsoon also raises the question of whether 2025-2026 will be an El Niño year or a La Niña year. Even though only 60% of deficit and surplus years have historically been ...

While currently in a La Niña pattern, we’re expected to return to ENSO Neutral (neither La Niña or El Niño) within the next month as sea surface temperatures in the Niño Zones return to near ...

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development. By Lisa Friedman Nonprofit groups have sued the ...