Guest blogger Ken Takahashi assesses the prospects for this El Niño to be an extreme one in the eastern tropical Pacific, like the 1982 and 1997 events were.
ENSO forecasters are predicting this El Niño will be a strong one. What does that mean?
Part science expert, part ringmaster, Jessica Blunden shares the challenges and the value of putting together the State of the Climate report every year.
El Niño continues to build. What happened during June? What's the forecast? And what does Bruce Lee have to do with anything?
“El Niño is Strong!” “No, it’s Moderate!” “But the [insert your favorite ENSO indicator here] is the largest it’s been since the El Niño of 1997-98!”
NCEI's Jake Crouch reflects on entering the field of climate monitoring during a historic drought in the Southern Plains.