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 supposed ...

Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean for changes that signal El Niño or La Niña, major global climate patterns that affect hurricane season outlooks. On ...

Despite persistent warm temperatures across much of the country and widespread drought, winter is approaching. Unlike recent El Niño-dominated years, this season's forecast features a weak La Niña, ...

January 2026 is expected to bring warmer-than-average and drier-than-normal conditions across much of the Southeast, ...

After months of hearing about the possibility of the world entering a La Niña climate pattern, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of ...

After the prior week’s beneficial precipitation, low precipitation totals this past week allowed for broad areas of intensification or re-intensification of dryness and drought over parts of the High ...

Ancient horsetail plants produce water with unusual oxygen isotopes, offering scientists a new tool to reconstruct Earth’s ...

Once again, sea surface temperatures are hovering slightly below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. This climate pattern, called La Niña, has it’s biggest influence on the weather across ...