The Climate Prediction Center said there is a 60% chance that La Niña conditions will emerge by the end of November.

Forecasters are predicting a weak La Niña event for this winter. Here's what that means for weather in the US.

La Nina is the cool phase of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, a naturally occurring global climate pattern that involves changes in wind and ocean temperatures in the Pacific and can cause extreme weather across the planet.

L’Heurex said that La Nina’s tend to last longer and be more recurrent than El Niño events. “It’s unusual although it’s not unprecedented,” said Ben Cook, climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies affiliated with ...

La Niña, the cooler phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), can have significant impacts on global weather, especially during the winter months.