El Nino News
Strong El Nino Could Prevent Relief from Smoke Haze Choking Asia
The choking haze that has blown across Southeast Asia from burning rain forests in Indonesia may get worse and last several more weeks as an unusually strong El Nino keeps away seasonal rain that ...
Drought’s Economic Damage Went Global in August: Aon Benfield
Severe drought in the western U.S. caused economic losses in August of at least $3 billion, mostly from agricultural damage in California, Aon Benfield's Impact Forecasting said in a new report. ...
El Nino Set to Give U.S. a Very Warm Winter
How the weather plays out in the next six months will have a lot to say about the California drought, snow in the Northeast and even the price of natural gas. A strong El Nino in the equatorial ...
El Nino Conditions Could Last Until Spring in Northern Hemisphere
A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday raised the likelihood that El Nino conditions would last into the Northern Hemisphere's early spring to 85 percent, boosting the probability that ...
Monster El Niño Makes Record Hot Year Look Inevitable
In more than 135 years of global temperature data, four of the five hottest months on record all happened in 2015: February, March, May and now June. This has been the hottest start to a year by far, ...
Why Pacific Typhoons and Other Tropical Storms Are Surging
The Pacific Ocean, named for placidity, is roaring. In the past week, eight tropical systems -- and that includes two major typhoons -- have formed across the Pacific from China to Mexico. On top of ...
Pacific El Niño Turbocharged by Tropical Cyclones
The El Niño forming across the Pacific has been turbocharged by a series of tropical cyclones that helped to shift the direction of trade winds, potentially adding to warming that's evoking ...
An El Nino-Driven Summer is All But Certain
A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said there was a 90 percent chance that El Nino conditions would continue during the Northern Hemisphere summer, an increase from last month's ...