After months of anticipation, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center declared on Thursday that El Niño conditions have developed. California experts are closely monitoring the ...

Scientists around the world are warning a strong El Niño this year, colloquially dubbed a super El Niño, could lead to extreme weather events — from heavy rainfall to exacerbated droughts. The ...

A developing El Niño is showing early signs of influencing weather patterns across the United States. The southern U.S. may see wetter conditions, while the northern U.S. could experience warmer and ...

With the odds of a potential “super El Niño” increasing, concerns about extreme weather have been raised across the world. The climate phenomenon could bring record-setting temperatures, increased ...

The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons. By Chico Harlan Well before it was understood, the ...

The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean. That’s where a freight train of record-warm water is chugging along. This train, called a Kelvin wave, is ...

Whether it will be a “very strong” or even “super” El Niño remains to be seen, but the powerful Pacific Ocean pattern is expected to appear this summer. The latest federal forecast gives the El Niño ...

El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter. This is according to a ...

An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its intensity. Headlines have been proclaiming that one of the strongest El Niño weather patterns in ...

One of the most powerful El Niño events ever recorded could form in the coming months, according to new forecasts, raising concerns about global temperatures, hurricanes, drought conditions and other ...

While much of the recent weather chatter has centered on the cool spring stretch, a much larger signal is beginning to emerge thousands of miles away in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Meteorologists are ...

Belle Burden became an instant New York Times bestseller after her book, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, was published in January 2026 — and even nonreaders can’t get enough of this story. “In ...