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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 ...
La Niña happens when Pacific waters cool, moving the tropical thunderstorms so that the wind shear in the Atlantic wanes during hurricane season. La Niña watch: High chances the hurricane ...
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.
Hurricane season: La Niña can contribute to a more active Atlantic hurricane season. This means Texas might face a higher risk of hurricanes and tropical storms making landfall, bringing heavy ...
A pokey La Niña doesn’t mean the rest of hurricane season, which runs through Nov. 30, will be sluggish. Thursday’s ENSO forecast came out the same day as NOAA’s updated hurricane ...
In early 2024, hurricane forecasters predicted a highly-active season, citing the La Niña effect and warm sea surface temperatures. [8] After the earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record, Hurricane Beryl, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintained this prediction through August. [9]
The switch to La Niña historically signals a more active hurricane season. However, what has some experts, like weather and climate specialist Dr. Marshall Shepherd, concerned are the ...
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 ...