La Niña Expected to Emerge, Here's What It Means | Weather.com
Sep 12, 2024 · La Niña occurs when the ocean's surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific are cooler, which can have an impact on weather patterns all over the world.
What is La Nina and how will it impact weather in 2024? | Vox
May 1, 2024 · The warm phase of the Pacific Ocean’s temperature cycle, known as El Niño, is now winding down and is poised to move into its counterphase, La Niña. During an El Niño year, warm water starts to...
June 2024 update: La Niña likely by late summer
Jun 13, 2024 · In the Pacific, La Niña brings cooler-than-average temperatures in the central-eastern part of the basin, stronger winds both near the surface and at high altitudes, and heavier rain than normal over Indonesia and the rest of the Maritime Continent.
La Niña switch expected to fuel extreme weather later this year
Jun 3, 2024 · The El Niño Pacific Ocean warming effect that has contributed to a spike in global temperatures is expected to swing to its opposite La Niña cooling phase from late summer, say weather...
La Nina weather 70% likely to develop in Aug-Oct, says US …
July 11 (Reuters) - There is a 70% chance of the La Nina weather pattern, characterized by cold temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, developing during the August to October period, a U.S....
La Nina is on its way back. An atmospheric scientist explains ... - PBS
May 12, 2024 · Forecasters know La Nina has arrived when temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the equator west of South America cool by at least half a degree Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit) below...
Recent “Triple-Dip” La Niña upends current understanding of ENSO
Nov 22, 2023 · “Triple-dip” La Niñas appear as wide blue dips in Oceanic Niño Index charts, which show three-month running mean of surface temperature anomalies in the tropical Pacific. (NASA: “La Niña Times Three”)
Atlantic Niña on the verge of developing. Here's why we should …
Aug 14, 2024 · Plus, Atlantic Niños have been shown to increase the likelihood of powerful hurricanes developing near the Cape Verde islands. NOAA’s seasonal forecast of above-normal 2024 hurricane activity is based on expected La Niña conditions in the equatorial Pacific and warm ocean temperatures in the tropical North Atlantic. It will be interesting ...
La Niña Looking Less Likely as Ocean Waters Stay Warm
3 days ago · With ocean temperatures stubbornly high, forecasters see a diminished chance that the Pacific Ocean will enter its cooler La Niña phase this fall, as was predicted. After a particularly warm El Niño ended in early summer, the Pacific entered its neutral phase.
U.S. Winter Outlook: Warmer and drier South, wetter North
2 days ago · A slowly-developing La Nina is favored to influence conditions for the upcoming winter across most of the country, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center — a division of NOAA’s National Weather Service.