El Niño (/ ɛ l ˈ n iː n j oʊ / el NEEN-yoh, Spanish: ; lit. 'The Boy') is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (approximately between the International Date Line and 120°W), including the area off the Pacific coast of South America.

By Matt McGrath. A natural weather event known as El Niño has begun in the Pacific Ocean, likely adding heat to a planet already warming under climate change. US scientists confirmed that El.

El Niño also exacerbates other effects of climate change. In the Northern United States and Canada, El Niño generally brings drier, warmer weather. That's bad news for Canada, which already had.

Weather phenomenon El Nino is returning after three years and is set to impact temperatures across the globe in 2023. This comes as NASA said that in 2022, Earth was about 1.1°C warmer in.

Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ClimateWire at E&E News. It’s official: “El Niño conditions are present and are expected to gradually strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2023.

The hot phase, called El Niño, occurs every two to seven years and sees warm waters come to the surface off the coast of South America and spread across the ocean pushing significant amounts of.

Global temperatures increase by about 0.2C during an El Niño episode, and fall about 0.2C during La Niña. The hottest year on record, 2016, was an El Niño year. Weirdly though, El Niño can.

National forecasters said on Thursday that the climate pattern system, known for bringing record rainfall in South America, more winter storms in the U.S West and South, and droughts in southern.

La Niña essentially gets its name from being the opposite of El Niño. It has also been called “El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply a ‘cold event,'” NOAA says.

( 1 vote) Upvote Downvote Flag Peter Patterson 4 months ago At 5:11 , why does the northern US and Canada become drier than usual in an El Nino year? Wouldn't the increased temperature lead to more rain in the region? • Comment ( 1 vote)

El Niño—the natural climate phenomenon of warm temperature in the Pacific Ocean—has officially begun, and it’s sure to affect weather patterns globally in conjunction with climate change.

There are some benefits to the phenomenon. After a La Nina episode, which is “basically an intensification of the normal climate,” says Dr Thomson, a moderate El Niño can bring “relief.