In recent decades, these climate patterns have been persisting longer and recurring more often. A striking example is the 2020-2023 La Niña, a rare “triple-dip” event that lasted for three years.

An area of high pressure over South Asia and the Middle East is causing heatwaves, with 21 countries seeing temperatures top ...

El Niño is a fascinating climate phenomenon that ... it contributes to persistent droughts in places like Australia and Southeast Asia, turning land once lush into parched deserts.

Now, neither La Niña nor its counterpart El Niño are present and a so-called neutral phase has begun, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report. This neutral ...

The higher temperatures and droughts following an El Niño event, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, not only increases the prices of nonfuel commodities (by about 5½ percent over a year), but also ...

Soaring temperatures in 2024 were partly boosted by climate conditions known as El Niño (Spanish for "the ... the coasts of Australia and south-east Asia. This causes cold water to ‘upwell ...

Natural climate variability, notably El Nino, may have influenced severe heat wave that struck India and Pakistan in ...

The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO ... with profound impacts on weather patterns, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Accurate ENSO prediction is therefore critical for climate ...

He points out with most models signaling the return of El Nino, it is also a hint of what type of growing conditions crops like corn could see this summer. “El Niño and the likelihood of it ...

ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) brings on more or less rain than usual, depending on the region Argentina's National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a report stating that the El Niño ...

The 1997–98 and 2015–16 El Niño events, for instance, brought catastrophic flooding to the eastern Pacific while plunging Africa, Australia and southeast Asia into severe droughts.