El Niño has officially come to an end and the ripples from its demise will shake up weather around the globe. El Niño – a natural climate pattern marked by warmer than average ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean – has gripped the planet since the start of last summer. It reached super status […]
The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. It’s cool flip side, La Nina, is likely to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season, federal meteorologists said. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday pronounced dead the El Nino that […]
(Bloomberg) — The Southern African Development Community made a regional humanitarian appeal for at least $5.5 billion in assistance to deal with the impact of severe droughts and floods caused by the El Niño weather pattern, it said Monday. Most Read from Bloomberg The severe weather has affected more than 61 million people in the […]
El Paso will likely experience another scorching summer and a warm winter with above-average temperatures. There is about a 40% chance 2024 will be the hottest on record, despite moving out of El Niño, a warm phase, and into La Niña, a cooler phase, according to the National Weather Service in El Paso. Additionally, there […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The climate phenomenon known as El Nino — and not climate change — was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year, scientists said Wednesday. A team of international scientists found that El Nino — a natural warming of the central Pacific that changes weather […]
As El Niño ends, posts on X are blaming the natural phenomenon for record heat in 2023. This is misleading; while the climate pattern did affect average temperatures, the claims omit the impact of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions — which climate scientists say are the single largest contributor to global warming. “Weird narrative that we don’t […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather phenomenon. From a record harvest of 296 million kilograms (326,000 tons) last […]
El Niño, when warm waters in the eastern Pacific fuel hotter weather globally, is beginning to recede, scientists say. El Niño took shape last summer, boosting the overall warming trend. Each of the last eight months set a temperature record, with January a staggering 1.66 degrees C warmer than the preindustrial average, according to an […]
The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory. One of the main ways scientists determine whether El Niño is present, and a key indicator of its strength, is through ocean surface temperatures. And from November to January, the temperature of […]
Meteorologists watched for more than a week to see if several weather systems moving across the U.S. would collide next Monday near North Carolina in such way as to create what some here would call the perfect storm. That’s one that results in 2 to 3 inches of fluffy snow over the state’s midsection. While […]
Click here to view the video A strong El Niño raging in the eastern Pacific Ocean has had a profound effect on weather patterns the world over—and it may be on borrowed time. Forecasters see a dramatic change on the horizon. This pattern of warmer-than-normal waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean may rapidly flip toward […]
Jan. 17—The year ended with El Niño falling short of expectations for delivering a wetter-than-usual fall and winter. But a recent weather pattern has made up for it in the past few weeks, with a series of storms not only swelling the regional snowpack but boosting its water content, which is important for a healthy […]