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 supposed ...

Despite persistent warm temperatures across much of the country and widespread drought, winter is approaching. Unlike recent El Niño-dominated years, this season's forecast features a weak La Niña, ...

High pressure keeps Idaho dry through Wednesday with temperature inversions. Wet pattern returns for New Year with mild ...

Hurricane forecasters are carefully watching ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean for changes that signal El Niño or La Niña, major global climate patterns that affect hurricane season outlooks. On ...

After months of hearing about the possibility of the world entering a La Niña climate pattern, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of ...

Shifts in the frequency and magnitude of rain events (precipitation patterns) associated with climate change may impact ecosystem nitrogen and carbon cycling through effects on plant physiology and ...

KANSAS CITY — A notable, early-season stratospheric warming event that occurred in mid-November brought widespread snow and much colder temperatures to Canada and the north-central and eastern ...

The world is again feeling the effects of La Niña, a climate pattern that cools parts of the Pacific Ocean and alters weather worldwide. This fifth La Niña in six years is straining food systems, ...

After the prior week’s beneficial precipitation, low precipitation totals this past week allowed for broad areas of intensification or re-intensification of dryness and drought over parts of the High ...

Once again, sea surface temperatures are hovering slightly below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. This climate pattern, called La Niña, has it’s biggest influence on the weather across ...