Forecasters worry about warm water in the Atlantic Ocean where hurricanes form and the predicted absence of an El Niño.

This current usually brings cold, nutrient-rich water from the ocean depths, which is replaced by warmer surface waters. The name "El Niño" comes from the Spanish term "the child", directly ...

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 to 7 years off the Pacific coast of South ...

El Niño and La Niña are patterns of warmer- and cooler-than-seasonal water temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean around the equator. These anomalies have a major influence on weather ...

Forecasters estimate an 85% chance that El Niño will end ... NOAA explains it this way: "Ocean currents act much like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator ...

Sea surface temperatures are vital measurements that indicate the warmth of the ocean's top layer, influencing weather patterns, climate, and marine ecosystems.

Argentina's National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a report stating that the El Niño phenomenon had arrived in the country after water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean remained above those ...