The Latest Breaking News from La Niña

Meteorologists have declared La Nina finally over, but they warn it could return later in the year.

The weather pattern that drove record rain and floods in eastern Australia this year has ended, but models suggest it may soon return.

Scientists are watching an area in Pacific Ocean that has been unusually cool – a signal current La Niña could linger

Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.

A more La Niña-like state would mean more flooding rains over eastern Australia and worse droughts and bushfire seasons over southwest United States.

A cold front combined with a low-pressure system and La Niña will create perfect snow conditions in the Australian Alps this weekend.

This year, the Loop Current looks remarkably similar to the way it did in 2005, the year Hurricane Katrina crossed the Loop Current before devastating New Orleans.

La Niña is likely to cause parts of the country to experience rainier weather, while Western Canada will endure droughts.

Bureau of Meteorology climate report points to big wet in NSW and Queensland extending for months