Forecasters say El Niño, a climate pattern known for warmer ocean temperatures and increased rain and snow, is likely here to stay until early 2024.

El Niño is officially over, federal forecasters announced, but we're not quite in a La Niña yet. We're in the middling "ENSO-neutral" phase.

In the past, a strong El Niño has led to record global warmth. The climate pattern is one of the main drivers of weather in the U.S.

Historically, La Niñas have produced busy tropical seasons, while the opposite is known to be true during El Niños - when conditions are typically hostile for cyclones in the Atlantic basin.

The upcoming hurricane season may be during an El Nino pattern, which tends to favor stronger activity in the Pacific and weaker activity in the Atlantic.

Officially, the Atlantic Hurricane season starts June 1 and runs through the end of November but as we all know, Mother Nature works on her own time schedule.

An early bird El Nino has officially formed, likely to be strong, warp weather worldwide and give an already warming Earth an extra kick of natural heat, meteorologists announced.

Long-range weather forecasters at NOAA released predictions for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially starts June 1.

An early bird El Nino has officially formed, likely to be strong, warp weather worldwide and give an already warming Earth an extra kick of natural heat, meteorologists announced. The National ...