Overall, not surprisingly, folks wanting an early spring better head south, which is already seeing springlike signs.

The pattern had been predicted to form for several months, and weak La Niña conditions were finally officially met this week.

There were clear natural sources of oscillation of course, the sun perhaps the clearest of all. The Pythagoreans first proposed that the earth’s rotation caused the suns daily cycle. Their ...

After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases ...

and vorticity over one full oscillation cycle. The data reveal that the Great Red Spot is not as stable as it might look. It was observed going through an oscillation in its elliptical shape ...

(NOAA Climate.gov) La Niña is the cool phase of what is known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation cycle, and it tends to promote the formation and intensification of Atlantic hurricanes by ...