If temperatures hit unseasonable highs this fall and winter don’t blame fossil fuels, blame El Nino, a group of climate analysts say. Flying in the face of the prevailing narrative on climate change, a recent report on the Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon known as El Nino argues that this weather phenomenon corresponds more closely to…

Australia could be in for grassfires on a massive scale after three years of wet conditions left the nation loaded with fuel, history suggests. A new analysis looks at what happened after the nation experienced previous prolonged periods of cooler, wetter La Nina conditions. There have only been three since 1950: 1954-57, 1973-76 and 1998-2001. When all…

The extreme rainfall that has fallen across New South Wales in 2022 has created a supply shortage of real Christmas trees, triggering a rapid rise in the price of this Christmas tradition in Australia. This comes as Australia has been hit by its third consecutive La Nina, with Sydney experiencing its wettest October on record,…

The extreme rainfall that has fallen across New South Wales in 2022 has created a supply shortage of real Christmas trees, triggering a rapid rise in the price of this Christmas tradition in Australia. This comes as Australia has been hit by its third consecutive La Nina, with Sydney experiencing its wettest October on record,…

Forecasters are warning there’s a high risk of widespread flooding as multiple weather systems move across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) and days of heavy rainfall on already saturated catchments. A succession of three rainfall systems will bring downpours across large tracts of the country’s east this week, with parts of the…

The La Nina weather phenomenon is poised to return for a third year in a row, which may result in dry conditions in the central Pacific and excessive rainfall in other parts of Pacific, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) said Tuesday. SPREP stated that the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) La Nina…

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has confirmed that the south pacific is heading into its third consecutive La Niña weather event, meaning continued dry conditions for the southern parts of the United States, a colder and wetter winter in the northern U.S. and Canada, and a wetter summer for those on the east coast…

Australians have been told to brace for more rain and flooding this summer after the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said in its latest climate update for the region that the La Nina Alert will remain in place. “The Bureau’s ENSO Outlook continues at La Niña ALERT, indicating at least a 70 percent chance of La…

TOKYO—Japan’s weather bureau said on Monday the La Nina phenomenon was continuing and kept the chance that it would end during the northern hemisphere spring at 40 percent, unchanged from last month. It also repeated that there was a 70 percent chance of normal weather patterns returning in summer. A La Nina weather event is…

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Residents of hundreds of Florida Panhandle homes were evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others in an area that has spent years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, officials said Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of acres of downed trees from the 2018 hurricane, along with low humidity and…