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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> – La Ni\u00f1a weather<\/a> conditions are making a comeback in California<\/a> soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n This comes as a La Ni\u00f1a Watch <\/a>was issued by the NOAA on Thursday. The alert will run through the emergence of a La Ni\u00f1a or until water temperatures start to warm in the Central and Eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n What is La Ni\u00f1a?\u00a0 <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n La Ni\u00f1a is the cool phase of the El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. During this time, there are cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Central and Eastern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n Each cycle typically lasts between 9 months and a year, but there isn’t a set schedule for when the world enters either La Ni\u00f1a or El Ni\u00f1o state.<\/p>\n What is the difference between La Ni\u00f1a and El Ni\u00f1o? \u00a0 <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n La Ni\u00f1a is the cool phase which is the opposite of El Ni\u00f1o, when warmer waters dominate the same region.\u00a0<\/p>\n While a strong La Ni\u00f1a brings colder, stormier weather to much of the U.S., El Ni\u00f1o is known to produce more zonal patterns which lead to milder air.\u00a0<\/p>\n Graphic courtesy NOAA Climate.gov <\/p>\n A La Ni\u00f1a occurs when water temperatures are at least 0.5 degrees C cooler than normal for several consecutive months, while an El Ni\u00f1o unfolds during an equivalent episode of warmer-than-normal temperatures.<\/p>\n Both La Ni\u00f1a and El Ni\u00f1o tend to have their strongest influence over the weather in the winter.<\/p>\n El Ni\u00f1os occur irregularly, approximately every 2 to 7 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n What does it mean? <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n According to the NOAA, the forecast models point towards ENSO-neutral conditions for the rest of 2025 and into 2026, with the odds of El Ni\u00f1o developing low.<\/p>\n Forecasters said if La Ni\u00f1a develops it will likely be short, but odds increase in the new year that neutral conditions will prevail.<\/p>\n This means, during winter, the southern U.S. stays warmer than average while the northern U.S. is cooler. Last winter qualified as a La Ni\u00f1a event, though it was weak.<\/p>\n Forecasters said La Ni\u00f1a conditions are likely to develop late fall into early winter before revering back to a neutral late winter.<\/p>\n “The forecast team narrowly favors La Ni\u00f1a thresholds being reached” between September and January, the CPC said in its forecast.<\/p>\n How does it impact California? <\/p>\n Forecasters said the odds are La Ni\u00f1a will bring average to below-average rainfall across Southern California this winter.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information for this story is from the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. FOX Weather contributed.<\/p>\n Weather<\/a>Severe Weather<\/a>California<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – La Ni\u00f1a weather conditions are making a comeback in California soon.\u00a0 This comes as a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,50,5313,68,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-148538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/noaa.jpg\")
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