The current El Niño climate pattern has now attained "historically strong" status, federal scientists announced. They also predict that its counterpart, La Niña, will develop in its place later this ...

It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when El Niño – a player in last year’s especially brutal summer – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by ...

You may have heard of El Niño and La Niña before, but what exactly are they? El Niño and La Niña are two of the three different phases of what is called the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. ENSO ...

Let’s start with a quick look at what an El Niño is. El Niño and its opposite, La Niña, are climate patterns that influence weather around the world. El Niño tends to raise global temperatures, as we ...

El Niño has officially come to an end and the ripples from its demise will shake up weather around the globe. With El Niño out of the spotlight, its opposite is preparing to take center stage later ...

(NEXSTAR) – Say goodbye to El Niño. National forecasters announced Thursday that El Niño is expected to end in the next month. What comes next is a period of neutrality – called “ENSO neutral” – in ...