The lingering effects of El Niño are still being felt in the U.S. The deluge of rains that fell across the mid-south, southeast and eastern U.S. are a reminder of that. However, one agricultural ...

It's official: El Niño is gone. We're now under ENSO conditions. And get ready, because chances are high La Niña will be here ...

U.S. forecasters are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and 6 to 10 of those becoming hurricanes.Every<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

La Niña, the natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Niño climate phenomenon, has dwindled away after just three months. The La Niña that appeared in January, months later than ...

Now, forecasts for the 2023 fall and winter are predicting that its companion phenomenon, known as the El Niño, will occur with more than a 50% probability. What do El Niño and La Niña refer to?

The second is changes in global circulation patterns. By this I mean El Nino and La Nina, which are fluctuations in the ocean water temperature in the Pacific near South America. Warmer than ...

A La Nina tends to bring drier air over South America. The difficulty in accurately predicting ENSO patterns is exemplified by what happened in 2024, when the collapse of an El Niño took longer ...

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 ...

IF you are old enough you will most likely remember the 1997-1998 El Niño event. One of the strongest El Niños on record, it brought severe droughts, haze, crop failures, and water rationing.

This page contains information on El Niño, La Niña, and how these important patterns influence your weather here in Canada. Browse our video and news galleries and feel free to share this ...