What’s on tap for 2024? Rippey forecasts the intense El Niño will lead to what he calls “pretty profound” impacts for the rest of the winter, and even into spring.

El Niño is on its way out, and conditions may abruptly switch toward La Niña as we head through the summer months ...

However, January featured warmer, sunnier periods, with temperatures rising above freezing in recent days. ...

In the US, its effects are most pronounced in the winter months. When the ENSO's water is warm, it's called an "El Niño." This means warmer weather for the Northwest and Northeast, wet weather in ...

Named ‘the little boy’ by fishermen who noticed the pattern around Christmastime, we feel El Niño’s greatest effects during the winter months. A typical El Niño sets up a winter pattern ...

The pattern had been predicted to form for several months, and weak La Niña conditions were finally officially met this week.

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

An El Niño weather pattern—La Niña’s counterpart—brought the warmest winter on record last year. La Niña conditions emerged in December and will likely persist through April, though the ...

The planet-cooling climate pattern known as La Niña is here, scientists said Thursday, but it cannot prevent 2025 from being ...

Recent WASDE reports had assumed another record Brazilian soybean crop and Argentina returning to normal, but the El Niño weather ... and rain in the south. The effect in Argentina is a wetter ...

The risk of fires in the Amazon is greater in regions where groundwater storage is compromised, especially when El Niño exacerbates the drought. Using satellite images and data from fires ...