El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...

Stronger temperature anomalies make for stronger El Niño and La Niña events, which can have greater and more far-reaching effects around the world. An El Niño sees this wind pattern break down ...

He points out with most models signaling the return of El Nino, it is also a hint of what type of growing conditions crops like corn could see this summer. “El Niño and the likelihood of it ...

El Nino effects would occur when the winds slow down or reverse sending warm surface waters eastwards. The event was first observed in the 1600s in Peru where it was nicknamed 'El Nino de Navidad ...

Fisherfolk from various parts of the country also received financial support from the government, including Joben Maglinte who said his fishpond devoted to the production of catfish was affected by ...

It generally has weather and climate effects opposite to those of El Niño. “Depending on its strength, El Niño can cause a variety of impacts, such as increasing the risk of heavy rains and ...

During La Niña, the easterly winds along the equator blow faster and hurricanes become stronger and more frequent in the Atlantic. Because of the effects of El Niño on ocean temperatures and rainfall, ...

The combination of the latest El Nino episode, which is a marked increase ... borders to monitor global weather and climate.” The effects of El Niño are typically focused in the southern ...

Villafuerte said the delay was a direct result of the effects of the El Niño phenomenon, which is characterized by warm weather. La Niña, the opposite of El Nino, is expected in the middle of May.

Latin America and the Caribbean have been severely affected by the effects of El Niño which are, of course, in addition to those of human-induced climate change,“ the Argentine expert also noted.