(NEXSTAR) – The days of La Niña are numbered. The climate phenomenon is expected to fade away in the next few months, making way for its counterpart to take over, national forecasters said on Thursday.
As of December 2025, La Niña was still with us, said the Climate Prediction Center. It likely fueled some of the atmospheric rivers that pummeled the Pacific Northwest and the heavy snow in the Ohio Valley.
However, over the next few weeks or months, La Niña is expected to fade away. We’ll then be in a state that climate scientists describe as “ENSO neutral.” It’s not La Niña, it’s not El Niño – it’s La Nada…