La Niña's here through winter, but chances for ENSO to transition to neutral by spring are rising.
Breadjerknes feedback.... wait, I'm sorry, I mean *Bjerknes* feedback, and how it helps El Niño and La Niña events to grow.
Guest blogger Marybeth Arcodia explains her latest research into how the Madden-Julian Oscillation and ENSO sometimes enhance each other's influence on U.S. precipitation and other times cancel each other out.
Not a Mad Lib! Our blogger lays out some of the evidence for and against the notion that volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño.
Kidding. Here's why the polar vortex may also cause you to take off your sweater sometimes.
A blog post on the Blob. Blob, Blob, Blob. But here's why you shouldn't call it the Blob.
New research weighs in on a popular debate about whether reduced Arctic sea ice is causing extreme mid-latitude winters. Their result? Blame the atmosphere, not the ice.
The tropical Pacific Ocean may be ENSO-neutral, but there are still plenty of climate-and-weather topics to talk about.
Why did atmospheric El Niño conditions fail to develop this past fall? Our blogger tries to unravel the mystery of the missing central Pacific rainfall.
Want to forecast both weather and climate? First this means understanding the faster and slower moving features of our atmosphere, ocean, and land.