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La Niña is partly defined by periods of below-average surface temperatures in the Pacific, as well as a northward shift of the jet stream — the atmosphere's racetrack for storms from the Pacific.
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Winter temperatures in a weak La Niña are a north-to-south split. The north-central U.S. tends to be colder than average in La Niña winters. The South often sees above-average temperatures, but ...
An especially strong Walker circulation causes La Niña, which is considered to be the cold oceanic and positive atmospheric phase of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) weather phenomenon, as well as the opposite of El Niño weather pattern, [19] where sea surface temperature across the eastern equatorial part of the central ...
Weather patterns across the U.S. and the world from October through December resembled patterns from previous La Niña events. La Niña is considered to be the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern ...
Weakening sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical Pacific in early 2023 associated with the end of the La Niña event. The 2020–2023 La Niña event was unusual in that it featured three consecutive years of La Niña conditions (also called a "triple-dip" La Niña) in contrast to the typical 9–12 month cycles of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), [3] though the magnitude ...
That's what's happening now: "Waters in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean near the equator have remained at near-average temperatures this month," said Weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce ...
Across Alaska, El Niño events do not have a correlation towards dry or wet conditions; however, La Niña events lead to drier than normal conditions.During El Niño events, increased precipitation is expected in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico due to a more southerly, zonal, storm track over the Southwest, leading to increased winter snowpack, but a more subdued summer monsoon ...