La Niña
La Niña is the cool phase of ENSO. This topic is part of Climate within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
La Niña trivia questions
La Niña is associated with cooler-than-average surface water in which ocean region?
Answer: Equatorial Pacific
Bonus fact: La Niña is the cool phase of ENSO.
La Niña often features trade winds that are what compared with normal?
Answer: Stronger
Bonus fact: Stronger easterly trade winds increase upwelling in the eastern Pacific.
El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of what climate cycle?
Answer: ENSO
Bonus fact: ENSO strongly affects weather around the world.
What ocean-atmosphere pattern in the tropical Pacific can significantly alter weather around the world every few years?
Answer: El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Bonus fact: ENSO alternates between El Niño and La Niña conditions and affects rainfall and temperature patterns globally.