La Niña emerges in Pacific triggering global weather changes

By Brian K. Sullivan | Bloomberg

After months of anticipation, a weather-changing La Niña has developed in the equatorial Pacific further adding to drought worries in California and the southern US, as well as the croplands in South America, the US Climate Prediction Center said.

Ocean surface temperatures dropped to 0.9F of a degree (0.5C) below normal across the parts of the Pacific tracked by the US, said Michelle L’Heureux, a forecaster at the Climate Prediction Center. In order to declare a La Niña...