La Niña, a climate phenomenon associated with cooler temperatures, has disappeared in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. That’s opening the door to El Niño, which is associated with warmer weather – and to what climate experts say could be a record-breaking year of heat in 2024. Kamyar Razavi reports.
- Oceans’ sudden temperature spike stumps and alarms scientists
- La Niña’s kept things cooler this winter. But what happens when that cooling effect vanishes?