A super El Niño is increasingly likely later this year, and that could have significant global impacts on rainfall and temperatures from summer through winter, as well as the 2026 hurricane season. The central and eastern equatorial Pacific waters have ...

Farmers are keeping a close eye on the Pacific as La Niña, which has dominated weather patterns across much of 2026, begins to give way to El Niño. The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center (CPC) now reports La Niña persisted through ...

New Englanders have seen a colder-than-average winter with a much more active storm pattern, a classic result of La Niña during the winter months. But the seas over the equatorial Pacific waters are warming back up, and we’re expected to see La Niña ...

Let's start with what it is not: El Niño is not a storm that can hit your community. It is a climate pattern, meaning it is not "weather", but it does affect weather. To define El Niño, we have to start with the Pacific Ocean. Under normal conditions ...