Conventional knowledge in California about whether significant rainfall is in store for any given year has largely been tied up in the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. But a new study ...

(NEXSTAR) – After months of teasing, a La Niña winter has finally started ... and an exceptionally dry year in Southern California led to dangerous fire conditions. But at the same time ...

As meteorological winter draws to a close ... February and Minneapolis was in a hole of more than a foot. In California, La Niña weather patterns typically produce dry conditions in the southern ...

A typical La Niña pattern produces a wetter, cooler winter over the northern U.S., while drier, milder weather takes hold of ...