Oceans are a major driver of weather patterns around the world, an influence that extends from powerful hurricanes to delicate snow showers. It’s the temperature of the water that holds the power of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal climate scientists say a rapidly strengthening El Niño is increasingly likely to rank among the most powerful events ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a way to unravel changing weather patterns on distant worlds. Using this approach, they discovered that the weather on a well-studied brown dwarf, ...

The planet’s oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, breaking the all-time June record, according to new data, with alarming implications for global weather and marine life. On ...

A new study found that not all geoengineering ideas are created equal. Brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El Niño cycle, triggering major changes to ...

A much-anticipated El Niño that developed this summer is soon expected to become the strongest ever recorded, with cascading effects on global climate peaking late this year and into next. Water ...

Image caption: Scripps meteorologist Chad Hecht releases a weather balloon into an atmospheric river making landfall in Marysville, Calif. The Pacific Ocean’s El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ...

Synergy between global warming and a type of El Niño not seen since the late 1990s could create unprecedented weather that scientists don’t have enough climate data to model. Reading time 3 minutes ...

The developing Pacific weather pattern could drive extreme heat, disrupt rainfall and threaten food supplies across several regions ...

A potentially historic El Niño pattern is no longer just brewing in the Eastern Pacific – it is here. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center has issued an El Niño Advisory, meaning El Niño conditions are ...