It has two opposite states: El Niño and La Niña, both of which significantly alter global weather. El Niño can ... American fishing communities. Getty Images Fishing stocks can be affected ...

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 ...

NOAA has declared that a La ... El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, which is a pattern of atmospheric and sea temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects global weather ...

The climate pattern is the inverse of the better-known El Niño ... weather extremes that include intense Atlantic hurricanes, East African drought and floods in Indonesia. But La Niña’s ...

And, despite its late arrival, it’s already played a clear role in this winter’s weather. Forecasters closely monitor La Niña and its counterpart El Niño because they influence global ...

But despite this, 2025 is still likely to be among the three hottest years on record, according to the UK’s weather and climate agency, the Met Office. El Niño and La Niña are two opposing ...