During El Niño years, when water temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator are warmer than average, the Pacific jet stream shifts south, often bringing wetter conditions to the ...

An El Niño weather pattern—La Niña’s counterpart ... Because of cooler sea surface temperatures, the jet stream—a current of air flowing from west to east—is pushed to the north ...

A pineapple express is a type of strong atmospheric river that carries moisture toward the western U.S., bringing the risk of ...

According to National Weather Service data, Milwaukee had an average temperature of 52.8 degrees in 2024, 3.5 degrees warmer than normal.

After much of the world experienced the hottest year on record in 2024, the U.S. has seen a lot of cold and snow for January. This warmth was partly fueled by a strong El Nino that peaked last year ...

La Niña is the cool phase of ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation ... on the Northern Hemisphere in the winter season as the jet stream or storm track is pushed farther north, keeping it cooler ...

La Niña is considered the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO ... there could be fewer kinks in the jet stream, meaning more regional patterns would dominate local weather ...