HOUSTON — Many factors impact the activity and intensity of hurricane season. One of them is the Madden-Julian Oscillation. This pattern, discovered in 1971, is a region of both enhanced and ...

Remember a few weeks ago when the tropics were quiet in the Atlantic, yet we had three to four tropical systems in the Pacific, and now that trend has seemingly flipped? There's a reason for that.

PITTSBURGH — Our weather is affected by patterns all across the world. One of them is called the Madden-Julian Oscillation, which is an atmospheric event that happens over the Indian and Pacific ...

The Earth’s tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a dominant intraseasonal climate signal, ...

Author’s note: The taxpayer-funded tools from NOAA I consulted to provide the forecast information and analyses in today’s newsletter include Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) analyses and tropical ...

I don't want to use the infamous "q" word to describe the tropics lately, but let's just say it's been...uneventful (thankfully). As of Wednesday morning, however, things are starting to wake up again ...