06/14/2024

La Niña is Likely to Arrive This Summer

Here's what that means for hurricane season

El Niño is so last season.

Federal forecasters say the climate pattern, which brought warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures to the Eastern Pacific — and helped drive global temperatures to new heights — since June 2023, is officially over.

The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Climate Prediction Center declared Thursday that neutral conditions returned during the past month, as expected. But they're not likely to last long: El Niño's cooler counterpart, La Niña, is forecast to develop this summer and persist throughout winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

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