La Niña has finally emerged after months of anticipation, but there’s a catch. The climate pattern — which typically has an outsized influence on winter weather in the US — is rather weak ...

First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced Thursday morning. However, the pattern is a weak one, and isn't ...

Meanwhile, the weather in parts of Indonesia, northern Australia and southern Africa tends to become wetter during La Niñas, according to L'Heureux. On the flip side, El Niños tends to cause ...

At the beginning of the new year, California’s snowpack looked promising. On Jan. 2, the state’s Department of Water Resources measured the snowpack at 108% of average, for that date. The ...

Neutral conditions mean neither La Niña nor its counterpart El Niño would be ongoing. Weak La Niñas tend to exert less influence on temperatures and precipitation. Although this La Niña might ...

The last La Nina ended in 2023 after an unusual three-year stretch. The odds favor ENSO Neutral conditions to continue through summer and into next fall. While Neutral is favored, the odds of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The much-anticipated La Nina climate pattern is officially here. It’s expected to stick around through winter. In a report released on Thursday by the Climate Prediction ...

NOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will still affect global weather and climate. When you purchase through ...

The last El Nino was declared finished last June, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters have been expecting La Nina for months. Its delayed arrival may have been ...

After months of anticipation, a weather-changing La Niña has developed in the equatorial Pacific further adding to drought worries in California and the southern US, as well as the croplands in ...

La Niña is officially—and finally—here. Months of waiting have come to an end as ocean temperatures in the Pacific have now met the criteria necessary to declare an official start to La Niña.