The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed this shift on Thursday, Jan. 9. What Is La Niña? La Niña is part of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a natural climate ...
They are part of a natural cycle known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The ENSO cycle loosely operates over timescales from one to eight years. La Niña occurs when equatorial trade winds ...
ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation), popularly known as “El Niño”, is a natural climatic phenomenon that has a recurrence of between 2 and 7 years. Its impacts on climate are global in scale ...
La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, but January 2025 was still the hottest on record, with an average global warming of 3.15 F (1.75 C) above pre-industrial ...