The La Niña climate pattern has taken hold of the U.S. ahead of the start of meteorological winter, which forecasters say typically spreads more snow across the Northern Tier of the U.S. and nasty ...

With heat waves among Europe's deadliest climate hazards, a team of scientists led by CMCC has developed a prediction system capable of providing helpful information four to seven weeks before summer, ...

Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica and Cuba this week, followed what has become a familiar pattern for major ...

During a La Niña, a counterpart to the El Niño weather pattern, drier than normal conditions are to be expected. But 2023, a La Niña year, turned out to be California’s 10th-wettest year on record.

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a vital mode of stratospheric variability with significant influence on tropical and subtropical climate systems. However, its influence on precipitation ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79 N Glacier -- the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from ...

High above our heads and unseen to the naked eye, rivers of water vapor flow through the atmosphere. These "atmospheric rivers" are crucial to the global water cycle. Astonishingly, they have the ...

Atmospheric rivers—the massive bands of water vapor that deliver crucial rainfall to regions worldwide—are steadily moving toward Earth's poles, a shift that could dramatically alter precipitation ...