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 ...
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 ...
Soaring temperatures in 2024 were partly boosted by climate conditions known as El Niño (Spanish for "the boy"), according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s data analysis. In 2025, another ...
La Niña has finally emerged after months of anticipation, but there’s a catch. The climate pattern — which typically has an outsized influence on winter weather in the US — is rather weak ...