Start Of La Nina 2024. The 2023/24 el niño event, which helped fuel a spike in global temperatures and extreme weather around the world, is now showing signs of ending. The rapid subsurface temperature changes and the cold anomaly at the surface have prompted the climate prediction center to issue an official la niña watch.

El niño weakened substantially over the past month, and we think a transition to neutral conditions is imminent. Atlantic or gulf coasts, la nina can contribute to the.