The La Niña pattern that has been influencing the global weather over the past year is rapidly weakening, with signals ...
The Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) has traditionally been the NOAA’s primary indicator for monitoring the ocean part of the seasonal climate pattern, ENSO. ONI allows scientists to classify El Niño and La ...
Winter’s La Niña pattern may lead to a late spring in the northern United States, and affect how you get plants.
A new index will help scientists and forecasters better identify El Niño and La Niña events in the future as the climate ...
Scientists say the new index for El Niño and La Niña is a better indicator of ocean temperature extremes and atmospheric ...
The official NOAA CPC ENSO probabilities show a 75% chance of a transition to a neutral phase through late spring. When we’re in the neutral phase, it means the Pacific Ocean isn’t strongly warmer or ...
Planning a winter getaway this year? You might want to pay closer attention to something happening thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean. The battle between El Niño and La Niña doesn't just ...
CLEVELAND — Hundreds of years ago, fishermen casting their nets off the coast of Peru and Ecuador noticed something unusual. Every few years, the ocean water in their usually productive fishing ...