El Niño/La Niña Update (August 2022)

The protracted La Niña conditions, which began in September 2020, with a short break in 2021 boreal summer, are still continuing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. WMO Global Producing Centres of Long-Range Forecasts predict the continuation of the current La Niña into the boreal winter of 2022/2023, with a 75% chance in December-February 2022/2023, and 60% in JanuaryMarch 2023. Thereafter, transition of the current La Niña (a cold phase of the