La Niña is part of a natural climate cycle, but like El Niño, it can cause extreme weather across the globe. It occurs when sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean drop ...

Its "little girl" sister, La Nina, creates weather patterns that, although variable, tend to be cooler and wetter, and can ...

The northern tier of the U.S. and southern Canada could be wetter than average. La Nina is the cool phase of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, a naturally occurring global climate pattern that ...

An El Niño weather pattern—La Niña’s counterpart—brought the warmest winter on record last year. There is a 60% chance La Niña develops in the U.S. through November and persists through ...

Here's what to know about the El Niño and La Niña patterns and how they affect the weather in Arizona. La Niña, and its counterpart El Niño, are climatological events that are part of a ...

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 ...

It's the opposite to the more well-known El Niño, which occurs when Pacific Ocean water is at least 0.9 degree warmer than average for three months. A typical La Niña winter in the U.S. brings ...

If you hang around weather people, you might encounter the shorthand phrase ENSO. That stands for El Niño-Southern Oscillation. "ENSO is one of the most important climate phenomena on Earth due ...

“La Niña means that those temperatures are cooler than average while El Niño is warmer than average. It’s a global pattern that fluctuates from season to season,” Fox Forecast Center ...