Forecasters expect the El Niño weather pattern to strengthen significantly this year, raising the risks of extreme weather ...

The planet has always changed. Ice ages came and went, oceans rose and fell, climates shifted over geological timescales. That's the story we've told ourselves for comfort, and it's technically true.

Fall is arriving in the Washington, D.C. region with a potentially rare large-scale weather pattern taking shape across the Pacific.

The North Atlantic region exhibits marked variability driven by internal ocean–atmosphere interactions and remote influences from other ocean basins. The primary mode, the North Atlantic Oscillation ...

For the second time in as many months, a wind burst occurred in a remote part of the western Pacific Ocean during January — and odds are rising that it will trigger a significant change in the ...

Image caption: Scripps meteorologist Chad Hecht releases a weather balloon into an atmospheric river making landfall in Marysville, Calif. The Pacific Ocean’s El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ...

Climate drives vegetation patterns across the Henan section of China's Yellow River Basin, research in the International Journal of Environmental Engineering shows. However, expanding agriculture and ...

Something has shifted in the way climate scientists talk about their own work. The language has become noticeably more cautious, the caveats more pointed. Researchers who once trusted decades-old ...

That means, outside of the northern reaches of the region, residents can expect that their winters will be warmer and wetter on average. Now, some of those same researchers have dug deeper to find ...

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The Indian Ocean is smaller than the two other major ocean basins, but its impact on the global climate is mighty, according to researchers examining the historic 2023-24 heat wave. (CN) — As the ...