This page contains information on El Niño, La Niña, and how these important ... including here in Canada. Diagram image courtesy of NOAA. Under normal conditions, prevailing winds blow from ...

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center announced an end to the El Niño climate phenomenon on Thursday, and predicted that La Niña could start as early as next month. By Austyn Gaffney El Niño ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — El Niño and La Niña episodes have been shown through numerous studies to have widespread weather impacts, especially on larger scale weather patterns. But what about ...

Now, neither La Niña nor its counterpart El Niño are present and a so-called neutral phase has begun, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report. This neutral ...

A new international study led by researchers at Tulane University shows that the El Niño and La Niña climate patterns affect ...

So what is the naturally occurring El Niño weather system and its opposing phase, La Niña? What are the El Niño and La Niña weather events? El Niño and La Niña refer to fluctuation in the ...

“States from Texas to Maine are making preparations for an active year.” Both El Nino and La Nina create “potential hot spots” for extreme weather but in different places and of different ...

While predictive skill for El Niño and La Niña events — part of what is known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO — has improved significantly in recent decades, it isn’t perfect ...

The planet is officially on alert for La Niña, the foil to the El Niño climate pattern, scientists declared Thursday. It could have a cooling effect on the ongoing stretch of record global heat ...

Neutral conditions prevail when El Niño and La Niña are (temporarily) absent El Niño and La Niña are two extremes that have far-reaching effects on our weather here in Canada and around the world.