(NEWSnet/AP) — The strong El Niño weather condition that added a bit of extra heat is over. It’s cool flip side, La Niña, is likely to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season, federal meteorologists said.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday pronounced dead the El Nino that warms parts of the central Pacific.

The El Niño formed a year ago and has been blamed for a wild 12 months of heat waves and extreme weather.

The world is now in a neutral condition when it comes to the important natural El Nino Southern Oscillation, which warps weather systems worldwide. Neutral is when weather gets closer to long-term averages or normal, said NOAA physical scientist Michelle L’Heureux, the lead forecaster of the agency’s ENSO team. But it likely won’t last, she added.

She said there’s a 65% chance that a La Niña, a cooling of the same parts of the Pacific that often has opposite effects, will form in the July, August and September time period.

One of the biggest effects of La Niña is that it tends to make Atlantic hurricane season more active, and that storm season starts its peak in August

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