La Nina Strengthens: What are the Implications for this Winter?

The recent NOAA El Nino/La Niña forecast indicates continued La Niña conditions into mid-winter.  If anything, it’s erring on the warm side.

La Niña Continues … Globe To Keep Cooling For Another Year

The NASA/GMAO ENSO forecasts remain consistent with the August 2025 forecasts, with La Niña conditions developing in the equatorial Pacific in the relevant Nino region 3.4 in the NH summer of 2025.

Atmosphere Hits Neutral: Wild Winter Weather Ahead?

What are the implications of neutral conditions for next winter? Increased chances of a major wind event from an approaching midlatitude low-pressure system. Increased chance of a strong atmospheric river…

True Skepticism in the Face of a 2023 Global Warming Spike Study

If we are to remain intellectually honest, we must apply the same level of scrutiny to this study as we would to any research that claims catastrophic warming is imminent.…

NOAA Criteria Suggest Full-Fledged La Niña Unlikely in 2024 – Even A Single La Niña Threshold Unlikely During the Indian Southwest Monsoon

The ENSO Outlook is currently at La Niña Watch, meaning there are some signs that a La Niña may form in the Pacific Ocean later in 2024. A La Niña…

Arctic sea ice–air interactions weaken El Niño–Southern Oscillation

… although many other factors may also play a role in the real world.

With a cooling La Niña gone, media will go into “Global Warming Overdrive” as El Niño hits.

March 2023 ENSO update: no more La Niña! BY EMILY BECKER – originally published on NOAA’s Climate.gov La Niña—the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern—has left the building!…

Australia Sees Coldest and Wettest Spring in Decades Amid Third La Niña in A Row

The result was rare late spring snow as far north as Central West NSW and the coldest November on record for some towns, including Forbes and Ivanhoe, where maximums were…

Scientists Warn of a Rare Third Year La Nina

“Nonetheless, we should be aware of the risk of intense cold surges in Eurasia, which could also produce more cold extremes either in eastern or northeastern China,” Fang warns.

ENSO Impact on the Declining CO2 Sink Rate

This is contrary to multiple previous studies that claimed to account for ENSO.

Reanalysis datasets used to analyze Equatorial Pacific Ocean heat content diverge more after strong El Niño events

Peer-Reviewed Publication INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Meteorologists frequently use ocean reanalysis data to study the evolution of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over time. These datasets are…

How Natural Oscillations Affect Arctic Climate & Predict Future Climate Change: Part 4

The degree that natural quasi-cycles, or oscillations, generate dramatic changes in the Arctic must be determined before scientists can blame rising CO2. Natural oscillations have highly significant effects on global…

Tokyo’s Coolest September In Over 30 Years…Hachijojima No Warming In 107 Years…Latest Forecast: Sharp La Niña!

Nothing that unusual is happening to our climate. Claims of increasingly extreme weather due to mankind’s activities are largely false. The data clearly show it.

La Nina: Globe Expected To Continue Cooling Into Next Year, Extending Cooling Streak To 7 Years

From The NoTricksZone By P Gosselin on 24. September 2021 Snowfan rreports here of how parts of western Germany have had 4 nights in a row of surface frost and how new models are…

Signs of a resurgence in La Nina and the potential implications on global temperatures and the upcoming winter season

In fact, there are signs right now that suggest the resurgence may already be underway in the central Pacific Ocean. The return of La Nina could have implications on global…

Study: Global Warming Could Resurrect the Ice Age Indian Ocean El-Nino

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Global warming models have predicted the emergence of an Indian Ocean version of the Pacific El-Nino / La-Nina cycle. Paleo climate research suggests this was…

ENSO predictions based on solar activity

From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on September 1, 2019 by curryja by Javier By knowing or estimating where in the solar cycle we are we can get an…

Does NASA’s Latest Study Confirm Global Warming?

Some heated claims were made in a recently published scientific paper, “Recent Global Warming as Confirmed by AIRS,” authored by Susskind et al. One of the co-authors is NASA’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt,…

Curious Correlations

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Grrrrr … gotta pull this one. The effect I found was due to the interaction of the El Nino with the seasons. Once I removed…

El Niño Conditions Persist in the Pacific Ocean

An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an…