Lake Shasta will wait to see whether La Niña patterns and the rain this week in California will help raise it to capacity for ...

La Niña winters are typically drier and warmer in the Southwest, but the current forecast leaves room for questions.

It's looking likely that La Niña will ... That causes cold water to surface off the coast of the Americas, which in turn ...

"During La Niña, essentially the reverse happens and you get a lot of cold water around the Peru coastline. This extends out into much of the central eastern Pacific." La Niña can significantly ...

But during La Nina, the trade winds intensify and cold water from the depths of the sea rises up, resulting in cooler than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific. These cold ocean ...

A variety of factors could impact the upcoming winter’s outcome, from the development of a La Niña weather pattern to an area of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, and nobody can predict how much ...

La Niña is an ocean surface temperature condition where the equatorial Pacific Ocean surface water turns cooler than normal. It’s the opposite ocean water condition from the better known warm ...

Normally, trade winds blow west along the equator in the Pacific Ocean, moving warm water towards Asia. El Niño and La Niña break these normal conditions, and a La Niña event is marked by even ...

During El Nino, warmer Pacific water helps form thunderstorms over ... The conditions are opposite during La Nina, when cooler Pacific temperatures result in downdrafts there, and reduced wind ...

During a La Niña event, trade winds that blow east to west near the equator intensify. Stronger winds push warm water from the eastern Pacific toward Asia, warming surface temperatures in the ...