Early signs of a possible La Niña fall and winter are emerging in some climate models, federal forecasters announced Thursday ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

Why the tropics have been unusually calm and what that means for hurricane season Attention is now turning to the Atlantic Ocean, which has yet to produce a tropical storm since the season started ...

Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed ...

The folks at the National Weather Service in Alaska were nervous. They were kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. Their instruments, data and computer forecast showed that a heat advisory ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are disrupting the crop, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans — and ...

First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced Thursday morning. However, the pattern is a weak one, and isn't ...

As the world’s coral reefs suffer a fourth global bleaching event, heat stress in the Caribbean is accumulating even earlier than it did in 2023, the previous record year for the region ...

Whether our climate pattern is in El Niño or La Niña, it all has to do with the sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean - specifically in a distinct region along the equator.

Even though La Niña is officially here, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center believes that it may not have a significant impact on weather patterns during the winter and spring.

There’s also the bigger picture of whether climate change will increase the frequency or intensity of El Niño and La Niña patterns, said state climatologist Nick Bond, also with UW.

A new study has revealed how decadal-scale climate fluctuations impact the ability of climate models to simulate tropical cyclone frequency in response to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO ...