After 12 consecutive months with temperatures 1.5 C above the 1850-1900 average, Earth’s temperature has now fallen slightly. But that doesn't mean the planet is cooling off.

Accuracy in forecasting the phase of ENSO in the winter climbs above 50% once you get past meteorological spring (March-May) ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and ...

El Niño, Hitchcock said. El Niño occurs when westerly trade winds along the equator weaken, causing warm water to push back toward equatorial South America. This deforms the Pacific jet stream and ...

A Monash University-led study is prompting scientists to rethink how the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system evolved and how it might behave in the future as our climate continues to change.

El Niño is a climate pattern of Pacific Ocean temperature and wind shifts that affect global weather. El Niño brings warm waters to the eastern Pacific; La Niña brings cool waters there.

El Niño brings warm waters to the eastern Pacific; La Niña brings cool waters there. These changes disrupt rainfall, storms, and temperatures worldwide -- causing floods, droughts, and shifts in ...

El Niño years in the western United States are usually soggy, warm affairs while countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean like Indonesia suffer from drought. The east-west shift of a warm blob ...