El Niño has become especially powerful this year, with “super El Niño” conditions now officially taking shape. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday that the phenomenon, which affects weather and climate around the world, has intensified and continues to strengthen. Its effects through next spring may even be considered historic,…
The winter season may bring much-needed rain and snow to parts of the United States where both have been lacking, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest winter weather outlook. But wetter conditions expected in much of the South will unfold alongside drier-than-average winter months across the northern tier of the country, largely…
Europe’s wildfire emergency eased across much of western Europe on Saturday, but its most dangerous front shifted to Greece, where gale-force winds drove flames through a seaside resort, forced hundreds to flee by sea and hampered firefighting aircraft. For Greece, the danger carried grim resonance: a 2018 wildfire at the seaside community of Mati, near Athens,…
