The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La ...

The large-scale Pacific Ocean climate patterns that help steer weather patterns around the globe are shifting yet again.

The La Niña pattern that has been influencing the global weather over the past year is rapidly weakening, with signals ...

The powerful weather pattern is expected to shift into gear again around June, NOAA said, though its strength this time ...

While La Niña is currently holding its own, the expectation is that an El Niño will develop by the peak of hurricane season. Here's why that's a big deal.

Two major weather agencies think it's increasingly likely that El Niño will form in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean later this year. If these forecasts hold, we could face a dramatic reshuffling of ...

El Niño could influence severe weather and hurricane seasons in the United States later this year.

The latest climate forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that an El Niño climate pattern is on track to arrive midway through hurricane season — a pattern that ...

El Niño could start to build later this summer ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - There is a 60% chance of a shift in the climate phenomenon known as La Niña towards El Nino in ...

CLEVELAND — Hundreds of years ago, fishermen casting their nets off the coast of Peru and Ecuador noticed something unusual. Every few years, the ocean water in their usually productive fishing ...

Rules for classifying the two patterns recently changed.