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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 ...
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.
Last winter (2023-2024) was an El Niño winter marked by cooler and wetter weather for the southern states. The last La Nina ended in 2023 after an unusual three-year stretch. What about the rest ...
[10]: 23 Future trends in ENSO due to climate change are uncertain, [11] although climate change exacerbates the effects of droughts and floods. The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report summarized the scientific knowledge in 2021 for the future of ENSO as follows: "In the long term, it is very likely that the precipitation variance related to El Niño ...
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 ...
In July 2023, the World Meteorological Organization declared that El Niño has developed in the tropical Pacific for the first time in 7 years. [76] In September 2023, the Bureau of Meteorology formally declared an El Niño weather event, for the first time in 8 years, after hot and dry conditions prevailed over south-east Australia during ...
“El Niño — the warm phase of the El Niño-La Niña climate pattern — changes global atmospheric circulation in known ways, giving us an idea of potential upcoming weather and climate ...
The answer appears to be complicated and may possibly influenced by climate change. La Niña is considered the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is characterized by lower ...