El Niño may take shape later this year, and the ripple effects could show up in U.S. weather during the second half of 2026.
Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.
Snow depths between 3,000 and 5,000 feet — the elevations most critical for summer water storage — are running around 40% of normal, according to NWAC data.
Rare blizzard conditions hit the Outer Banks last month and back-to-back winter storms left ice on the ground for days in parts of North Carolina.
While we’re still quite a ways out from the official start of hurricane season, and even more so from the climatological peak, but here are key variables we are looking at for hurricane season.
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Just What is El Nino?

The Weather Channel's Jen Carfagno says we often hear about El Nino, she explains just what it is.
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.
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural pattern of ocean and atmospheric changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can influence the weather pattern ...
Kasetsart University economist Dr Witsanu Attavanich says Thailand has entered the “mid-phase” of El Niño, with full ...
By Ben Noll The Post For the second time in as many months, a wind burst occurred in a remote part of the western Pacific Ocean during January – and odds are rising that it will ...
New satellite data from NASA shows snow coverage across the western U.S. has reached historic lows, a signal of what scientists call a snow drought. Below-average snowpack can impact water supplies, ...