The historic El Niño event currently shaking up Earth’s weather rose like a phoenix from the hot remains of a failed 2014 El Niño, new research suggests. The ongoing El Niño is among the three ...

In 2005, during an El Nino year, Australia faced a serious drought. Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images How will we know when El Niño arrives? According to ocean temperatures, it probably already has.

Meteorologists predict that we may see an El Nino in 2014, which means that it might be a good time to brush up on what the heck this supposedly terrifying weather phenomenon actually is. Here's what ...

With apologies to Game of Thrones fans, there’s a new climate menace on the prowl: El Niño is coming. New data released late last week added to the mounting evidence. To be declared an official El ...

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The graphic above shows the average location of the Pacific and polar jet streams and typical temperature and precipitation impacts during the winter over North America. (Fiona Martin/NOAA Climate.gov ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

On Wednesday, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño watch, with a roughly 50% chance of development in the summer or fall of this year. El Niño, also called the southern oscillation, is a ...

Prospects have been fading for an El Niño event in 2014, but now there's a glimmer of hope for a very modest comeback. Scientists warn that unless these developing weak-to-modest El Niño conditions ...

It may be even trickier to predict the strength of El Niño weather patterns than previously thought, according to a study by Yale researchers. A new variable — intraseasonal wind bursts — may play an ...