Meteorologists say a weak La Nina weather event has arrived but will bring fewer storms than usual. Here's how the Pacific El Nino and La Nina weather phases can influence extreme weather globally.

A weak La Nina event has arrived in the Pacific, bringing colder waters and potentially cooler weather. Despite being delayed and relatively weak, La Nina may bring intense storms and rainfall ...

This La Niña event is expected to be weak and its time of emergence may not have the impact it would otherwise have had, according to meteorologists ...

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 ...

The last El Niño, the periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters, finished in June 2024. NOAA forecasters have been expecting La Niña for months. The previous La Niña concluded in 2023 after an ...

who is also one of the main authors of NOAA’s La Niña/El Niño blog, explained. The phenomenon is marked by cooler than average water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, along with ...

However, it is expected to be weaker and shorter than usual. La Niña is the cold phase of a natural climate pattern called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, which is a pattern of ...

Last winter (2023-2024) was an El Niño winter marked by cooler and wetter weather for the southern states. The last La Nina ended in 2023 after an unusual three-year stretch. The odds favor ENSO ...

La Nina, the flip side of the better-known El Nino, is an irregular rising of unusually cold water in a key part of the central equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide.

La Niña is usually associated with drier conditions across the southern part of the U.S. and wetter conditions to the north.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the return of La Niña on Thursday, marking the start of an expected period of global cooling that nonetheless carried ominous signs ...

La Niña is considered the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is characterized by lower-than-average sea-surface temperatures, with anomalies of at least -0.5 degrees Celsius (-0 ...