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

The Southern Plains states get a severe drought about once a decade, but long-lasting droughts lately have been leaving farms ...

The tools scientists have relied on for decades to track El Niño and La Niña are breaking down, and the reason is ...

Ocean Temperatures Broke Every Record Imaginable In 2025, the upper 2,000 meters of the ocean absorbed a record-setting 23 ...

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

After years locked in a La Niña pattern, the Pacific is flipping. Major global climate models are now signaling a rapid transition toward El Niño later this year. This has surprised experts.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NOAA will begin using the Relative Oceanic Niño Index on Feb. 1 for its official advisories and forecasts to better account for ...

Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a new study in Geophysical Research Letters suggests. Traditionally, ...

Farmers across the U.S. are watching the Pacific closely this year as NOAA predicts La Niña could exit faster than expected, potentially giving way to an El Niño later in 2026. While this transition ...