First predicted to form last summer, climate troublemaker La Niña has developed at last, federal climate scientists announced Thursday morning. However, the pattern is a weak one, and isn't supposed ...

Temperature and precipitation patterns varied sharply across the country with eyes on Northwest, according to the U.S.

Despite persistent warm temperatures across much of the country and widespread drought, winter is approaching. Unlike recent El Niño-dominated years, this season's forecast features a weak La Niña, ...

The world is again feeling the effects of La Niña, a climate pattern that cools parts of the Pacific Ocean and alters weather ...

New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land ...

The climate phenomenon is expected to “continue for the next month or two,” national forecasters said in an update Thursday.

There is a 55% chance of a weak La Niña impacting weather and climate patterns during the next three months, according to the latest update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Even ...

After the prior week’s beneficial precipitation, low precipitation totals this past week allowed for broad areas of intensification or re-intensification of dryness and drought over parts of the High ...

Shifts in the frequency and magnitude of rain events (precipitation patterns) associated with climate change may impact ecosystem nitrogen and carbon cycling through effects on plant physiology and ...