How to Use La Niña in a Sentence

La Niña

noun

• Many of those ups and downs are caused by the natural El Nino and La Nina cycle.
  — CBS News, 17 July 2023
• Meanwhile, La Nina, one of the main reasons that forecasters thought the season would a bit busier, is still out there and going strong.
  — Katharine Jose, Chron, 27 Aug. 2022
• For the previous three years El Nino’s cool flip side, La Nina, dampened a bit of the heat humans are causing.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• This episode of La Nina left many parts of the world under extreme conditions, fatal for human life.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 12 May 2023
• With a La Nina climate system in effect, though, Chicago has been warmer than average — which means snow has been scarce.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
• Last year, for the first time, bleaching occurred during rainy and cooler La Nina conditions, even while some corals were gaining ground.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• With a forecasted La Nina — a temporary natural cooling of parts of the central Pacific — the last four months of the year may no longer be record-setters like most of the past year and a half.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• The ridge could push rain clouds to the north, which — combined with La Nina weather patterns — would bring unwelcome news: prospects for an even drier-than-average winter.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Currently, the climate pattern La Nina has almost half of the continental United States in a drought.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2020
• The Science Advances study found that the blaze set off a three-year La Nina, a phenomenon triggered by the cooling of the earth’s surface caused by an exceptional amount of smoke in the atmosphere.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 12 May 2023
• The snow could be ice instead due to warmer temperatures caused by a La Nina weather pattern that is expected to last through February.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• The combination of a coming La Nina and an already warm ocean likely spells an active season, McNoldy said.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• Those were also La Nina winters, which featured a mild February before a chilly March featuring some snow.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The La Nina weather pattern is expected to arrive soon, which is likely to fuel storms in the Atlantic during this year’s hurricane season.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• The recovery comes after the fourth mass bleaching in seven years and the first during a La Nina event, which typically brings cooler temperatures.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Additionally, La Nina, the weather phenomenon that causes high heat and drought, is letting up slightly — allowing tides of cold and rain to move in.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Aug. 2022
• For the East, big snowstorms or blizzards aren't usually associated with La Nina.
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Earth had a La Nina for the past three years, which generally increase Atlantic hurricane activity.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• The 2024 season was always projected to be quite active due to anomalously warm sea surface temperatures, La Nina and other factors.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
• Forecasters said there are favorable atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic due to La Nina.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• The La Nina climate pattern tends to boost Atlantic hurricane activity.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
• The predictions are based, in part, on a climatological phenomenon known as La Nina, which can limit vertical wind shear in the atmosphere.
  — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2022
• Global surface temperatures tend to be somewhat cooler during La Nina years and somewhat hotter during El Nino years.
  — Brad Plumer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Experts believe some of this improvement can be attributed to the La Nina climate cycle, which generally brings cooler temperatures and less rainfall.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
• Rising temperatures, frosts in Brazil, three consecutive years of La Nina and other extreme weather have been hurting coffee production in recent years, putting pressure on supply.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• Meteorologists are predicting relatively mild temperatures for Europe and the Northeast this winter thanks to the weather pattern known as La Nina.
  — Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
• The atmospheric phenomenon La Nina is wreaking havoc climate conditions.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2022