{"id":6335,"date":"2024-08-04T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-are-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-how-do-they-change-the-weather\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:53:38","slug":"what-are-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-how-do-they-change-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-are-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-how-do-they-change-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"What are El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a, and how do they change the weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not every event is the same, and the consequences vary from region to region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, scientists have observed some common effects:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Temperatures<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Global temperatures typically increase during an El Ni\u00f1o episode, and fall during La Ni\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">El Ni\u00f1o means warmer water spreads further, and stays closer to the surface. This releases more heat into the atmosphere, creating wetter and warmer air. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the regional effects are complicated, and some places may be both warmer and cooler than expected at different points in the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-67861954\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">hottest year on record, 2023, was boosted by El Ni\u00f1o conditions<\/a>, on top of long-term human-caused climate change, and that warmth continued into 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-64192508\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every event is the same, and the consequences vary from region to region. However, scientists have observed some common effects: Temperatures Global temperatures typically increase during an El Ni\u00f1o episode, and fall during La Ni\u00f1a. El Ni\u00f1o means warmer water spreads further, and stays closer to the surface. This releases more heat into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[84,3879,3878,864],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-change","tag-nina","tag-nino","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}