La Nina is weakening and the weather will turn to be affected by the El Nino - Southern Ozone (ENSO) neutral weather pattern from April, the US government's weather forecasting unit informed on March 13. Neutral weather will last throughout the summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
"The forecast team agrees and predicts a neutral ENSO with a 62% chance of occurring in June-August 2025 and a over 50% chance of occurring in July-September 2025," the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in its monthly forecast.
La Nina is a phenomenon in the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate cycle, related to sea temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific.
La Nina causes cooler-than-average temperatures but also increases the risk of flooding and droughts, affecting the crop. Meanwhile, when ENSO is neutral, sea water temperatures remain near average and crop yields may be more stable.
"Currently, La Nina has temporarily ended. We are officially in a neutral state. Unusual phenomena on the sea surface in the central Pacific are at zero," said Donald Keeney, senior agricultural meteorologist at Maxar.
Weather expert Keeney also shared: "We predict some droughts will occur in central Brazil in May and June, which will put pressure on safrinha corn. Droughts are likely to continue in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and western Russia until June. This will affect both winter wheat and the early development of corn and sunflowers".
Earlier this week, Japan's weather agency said that conditions similar to La Nina are starting to weaken. There is a 60% chance that normal weather will continue in the Northern Hemisphere through the summer.
