El Nino is a warm weather event while La Nina is a cold weather event. La Nina — also called El Viejo or anti-El Nino — has the opposite effect. It means “Little Girl” in Spanish.

The El Niño weather phase, which began in summer 2023, has now come to an end, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology says. It helped to boost global temperatures to record levels in recent months ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on ...

This year, warm surface waters have migrated to the eastern Pacific, so it's tempting to say that we're going to have a rainy winter because that is what happens in an average El Nino for the ...

It’s been the talk of the coffee shop – scientists have been forecasting the development of El Niño for months and issued the first El Niño Watch on April 13. In the National Oceanic and ...

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate today. Evidence from the past shows it can be volatile and undergo lasting change. How will it affect us in the future? Nineteenth century ...

Disruptions are common. During El Niño events, the trade winds become weaker than usual, and the warm water blob floats easterly towards South America. For the Southeast, El Niño cycles are ...

The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the globe, isn't just a modern phenomenon. A new modeling study from a ...