El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is ...

Global temperatures in February were the third hottest on record — 1.59C above the pre-industrial average, according to Zeke Hausfather, a climate researcher who calculated the result using data ...

El Niños develop every few years and can cause heavy rains, droughts and other hazards. Most El Niños last for a year, but ...

AccuWeather early forecast for 2025 hurricane season says warm water could lead to active tropical storms. Could one hit in, ...

Understanding El Niño is crucial for coastal regions to prepare and mitigate its effects effectively. The term “El Niño” refers to the “little boy” in Spanish and was coined by Peruvian ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

Hurricane season 2025 starts in about 2 months, and some leading forecasters are calling for an average year. But don't let ...

Previous studies have shown that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO ... back-to-back ENSO events could directly and indirectly affect populations susceptible to disease outbreaks over ...

On Wednesday morning, AccuWeather released its forecast, which calls for another active season "with multiple impacts on the United States." The news comes less than two weeks after an unusual and ...

According to the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi, "the incidence of hurricanes is higher during the neutral ...