EL NINO
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s official: El Niño is back. By late fall 2026, forecast models give a 2-in-3 chance of a strong-to-very strong El Niño affecting the weather, climate and ocean temperatures across the planet.
El Niño is the climate system’s biggest player and one side of the El Niño-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — El Niño has been declared in the Pacific — and a forecaster says there's reason for concern.
An El Niño event occurs when the ocean becomes warmer than usual, affecting rainfall and wind patterns.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Climatologists from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast are predicting an 82% chance an El Niño pattern will develop between May and July, with the probability of El Niño conditions persisting through early 2027 rising above 96%.
El Niño conditions occur when...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — National Weather Service Office meteorologists Salu Hans Malala and Dora Meredith were at the KSBS-FM studio yesterday, for a “preparedness week media blast outreach” that urges the community to prepare for the upcoming tropical cyclone — or hurricane — season which runs...