Bye bye, El Nino. Cooler hurricane-helping La Nina to replace the phenomenon that adds heat to Earth

BY SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer

The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. Forecasters expect its cool flip side, La Nina, to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday pronounced dead the El Nino that warms of parts of the central Pacific that formed a year ago. Earth’s now in a neutral condition of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, which warps weather systems worldwide. But it likely won’t last. The agency says there’s a 65% chance that a cooling hurricane-helping La Nina will form soon.