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Fall is in full swing, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially one that could feel considerably different than last year’s dominated by El Niño.. A weak La Niña is expected ...
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of the Pacific Ocean had finally reached the threshold required for La Niña to emerge in December.
Much of the southern US is expected to end up drier than normal, but parts of the Mississippi Valley and Southeast could be the exception. La Niña’s arrival was a long time coming
La Niña is marked by cooler-than-average ocean water in the region. "We finally got to La Niña!" National Weather Service meteorologist Erica Grow Cei said in an email to USA TODAY.
A developing La Nina is expected to bring warmer- and drier-than-normal weather to the central and southern U.S. Plains this winter, likely worsening a drought in the country's top winter wheat ...
The 2020–2023 La Niña event was a rare three-year, triple-dip La Niña. [1] The impact of the event led to numerous natural disasters that were either sparked or fueled by La Niña. La Niña refers to the reduction in the temperature of the ocean surface across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, accompanied by notable changes in the ...
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 ...
La Niña has the opposite effect, with unusually cold waters in the same area. The weather pattern, which means "the little girl" in Spanish, occurs every three to five years and typically lasts ...