A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

A weak La Nina event has arrived in the Pacific, bringing colder waters and potentially cooler weather. Despite being delayed ...

During El Nino, warmer Pacific water helps form thunderstorms ... and it tends to promote the formation and intensification of Atlantic hurricanes by reducing vertical wind shear across the ...

Phil Klotzbach, professor with Colorado State University, told the group that 2024 was a weird hurricane season, and 2025 is a coin toss now.

This means that January 2025 stands out as anomalous even by the standards of the last two years,” Hausfather explains.

The planet-cooling climate pattern known as La Niña is here, scientists said Thursday, but it cannot prevent 2025 from being one of the hottest years on record.

The oceans have been much warmer than average for the past two years, and the planet just set another global heat record.

But forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expect this La Niña event to be a weak one, and its chances of lasting through the next hurricane season are low.

which increases the number of hurricanes that develop and allows stronger storms to form. Last winter—affected by El Niño—was the warmest on record in the U.S., with temperatures across the ...