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...
Hail Storms Are Getting More Expensive, and No One Is Sure Why June 17, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a...
Study: Impacts of El Niño and La Niña to Intensify as Climate Warms August 28, 2018 When an El Niño or its opposite, La Niña, forms in the future, it’s likely to cause more intense impacts...
Odds of El Nino Rises July 12, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan It’s increasingly likely an El Nino will form this year in the equatorial Pacific to roil global weather patterns and...
La Nina Is Dead, But Watch Out for El Nino May 11, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan La Nina is dead. Long live El Nino? A weather pattern known as La Nina that has worsened drought conditions...
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...
Dry Spell Raises Concern of Drought’s Return in California January 5, 2018 It’s been almost a year since Los Angeles residents felt any real rain, and precious little snow is in the...
La Nina Contributing to Wildfire Threat in Mid-South, Plains December 6, 2017 By KEN MILLER Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors,...
Warm Winter Forecasted for Much of U.S. October 23, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters...
Summer Weather Prediction up in the Air as La Nina Ends February 9, 2017 By Brian K. Sullivan With the end of a Pacific La Nina and no clear signal of where ocean temperatures are heading, predicting spring...