El Niño and La Niña are patterns of warmer- and cooler-than-seasonal water temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean around the equator. These anomalies have a major influence on weather ...

El Niño and La Niña are two opposing climate conditions in the Pacific Ocean that affect the weather across the globe. Trade winds in the Pacific tend to blow from east to west, pushing warm ...

but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina, the flip side of the better-known El Nino ...

Experts believe that a strong El Niño weather event - a weather system that heats the ocean - will also set in ... has been in a cooler phase called La Niña, and has helped keep global ...