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The 2010–2012 La Niña event was one of the strongest on record. It caused Australia to experience its wettest September on record in 2010, and its fourth-wettest year on record in 2010. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It also led to an unusual intensification of the Leeuwin Current , [ 4 ] the 2010 Pakistan floods , the 2010–2011 Queensland floods , and the ...
La Niña’s arrival was a long time coming Long-range forecasters at the CPC first raised the possibility of a switch to La Niña back in February 2024 when El Niño was still very strong.
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season was the final year in a string of three consecutive very active seasons since 2010, with 19 tropical storms. The 2012 season was also a costly one in terms of property damage, mostly due to Hurricane Sandy .
La Niña has roughly the reverse pattern: high pressure over the central and eastern Pacific and lower pressure through much of the rest of the tropics and subtropics. [2] [3] The two phenomena last a year or so each and typically occur every two to seven years with varying intensity, with neutral periods of lower intensity interspersed. [4]
La Niña isn’t here yet, but has a 60% chance of emerging through November, according to the Climate Prediction Center. Once it arrives, it’ll stick around all winter and likely persist into ...
After a year of record warm global temperatures caused by climate change and an El Niño weather pattern, “a weak La Niña” is expected to form ahead of the arrival of winter, the National ...
La Niña tends to closely follow strong El Niño events, according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. An April 11 prediction by the CPC anticipated an 85% chance of transition from El Niño to ...
However, a weaker La Niña "implies that it would be less likely to result in conventional winter impacts," the CPC added. The center's forecast covers the months of December, January and February ...