US Weather Service Merges Units as Staffing Pressure Rises March 31, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of...
La Nina Is Fading But California, Gulf Coast Still Face Risks April 12, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan La Nina, the cooling of the equatorial Pacific that shifts weather patterns the world over, is fading away. But California...
La Nina Is Here, Threatening Even Bigger Blazes and Storms September 10, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The extreme weather that’s hammered California with runaway wildfires and hit Louisiana with its most powerful hurricane in 160 years...
Forecasters Predict Busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season May 26, 2020 By Freida Frisaro FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With forecasters predicting another intense Atlantic hurricane season with as many as 13 to 19 named...
Warmest Oceans on Record Adds to Hurricanes, Wildfires Risks April 20, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate...
La Nina to Last Through Winter, Just Don’t Tell Chilly Houston January 11, 2018 By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Brian K. Sullivan La Nina is likely to persist through the winter, though you wouldn’t know it if you lived in Houston. The...
As El Nino Fades, La Nina Watch Issued April 18, 2016 Next winter could be cold across the northern U.S. as odds increase that a La Nina will replace the fading...
Forecasters Affirm Below-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season August 10, 2015 The U.S. Climate Prediction Center’s updated 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook calls for a 90 percent chance of a below-normal...
Strengthening El Nino Offers Benefits July 29, 2015 By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK BAJAK In California, they’re counting on it to end an historic drought; in Peru, they’ve already declared a pre-emptive emergency to...
El Nino Predicted to Last Well Into Next Year July 10, 2015 By Brian K. Sullivan The Pacific Ocean’s weather-changing El Nino will probably last into 2016 and be stronger than previously forecast, the U.S. Climate...