This joint WFP and Action Against Hunger publication presents the impacts of El Niño in LAC, highlighting the emergency response and resilience activities taken to mitigate the effect of climate shocks in the region. The publication underscores the significance of adequate anticipation, preparedness, and response to climate emergencies in LAC. …
El Nino effect being witnessed could strengthen at the end of this year to adversely impact the rabi season and cause heat waves during next year’s summer in India, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) Climate Change specialist Dr. Ancha Srinivasan. Dr. Srinivasan mentioned that the Pacific phenomenon is currently weak …
The LPA for the country as a whole for the second half of the monsoon is 43.5 cm The India Meteorology Department (IMD) stuck to its South-West monsoon forecast at 88 per cent of the 50-year long period average (LPA) of 89 cm. This has raised El Nino concerns from …
Rains may remain weak over the rest of the monsoon season, the India Meteorological Department warned on Monday, predicting an all India rainfall deficit of 16% for the months of August and September. Issuing its forecast for monsoon's second half, IMD stuck to its earlier prediction of 90% rainfall in …
The government has confirmed that over 9,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields in six provinces have experienced harvest failure over the past few months as it warns that this year’s dry season has not yet reached its peak. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry’s …
Super typhoon Soudelor, possibly the strongest storm of 2015, is powering towards Taiwan in the north-west Pacific after causing widespread damage in the Northern Mariana Islands. The category 5 storm is expected to strengthen further, with sustained wind speeds of 150 knots, or 277.8 km/h, later on Tuesday, US space …
India has retained its forecast for this year's monsoon rains at 88 per cent of the long-period average as a strengthening El Nino weather pattern is likely to trim rainfall in August-September to 84 per cent, raising fears of the first drought in six years. In a country where nearly …
An El Nino is now well established and continues to strengthen, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said, with models indicating that sea-surface temperature anomalies in the central Pacific Ocean are set to climb to the highest in 19 years. The El Nino, marked by a warming of sea-surface temperatures …
Skymet Weather Services, a private agency, may revise its monsoon forecast again this month after its July prediction turned out to be off the mark and rainfall in June was higher than estimated. "We will take a call on how the season will be if there is a major deviation …
Warmer-than-usual water in parts of the Pacific Ocean indicates that a developing El Niño is intensifying and might become one of the strongest on record. And National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists think the weather phenomenon probably will continue through the winter of 2015-16, and into the spring of 2016. …
California is experiencing a particularly muggy, sticky summer, and some experts say rising ocean temperatures are at least partly to blame. Record-high sea temperatures off the Mexican and Central American coast are supercharging moist air moving from Mexico into California, some scientists say, dousing us with weather that seems more …
Australia's agricultural sector can expect above-average rains in the western part of the country over the next three months, while some southeastern regions could be unseasonably dry, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. The outlook reflects the much warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and an El …
In California, they're counting on it to end an historic drought; in Peru, they've already declared a pre-emptive emergency to prepare for devastating flooding. Experts say El Nino is set to be the largest in well over a decade - and will increase the price of coffee, chocolate and sugar. …
Hundreds of thousands of people are short of drinking water in northeast China's Liaoning Province as it suffers one of its most severe droughts in history. Liaoning has seen high temperatures and dry conditions since the start of July, with rainfall at its lowest since records began in 1951. The …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on contingency plan to deal with El Nino factor, 24/07/2015. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its 2nd update on June 2, 2015 of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) forecast that for the country as a whole the monsoon is likely to be 88±4% …
The El Nino has adversely affected the monsoon in the country so far and is expected to further affect the rainfall in coming months, government today said. In a written response to a question in Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan said India has received 7% less …
The country has 7% less rain than normal during the period between June 1 and July 20 The El Nino weather effect will further impact the southwest monsoon in the remaining part of the four-month season that started in June. In a written response to a question on this in …
A positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) may have already begun to play out, according to the Applications Laboratory of Jamstec, the Japanese national weather forecaster. The positive phase of the IOD represents anomalous warming of the western basin of the Indian Ocean (adjoining the Arabian Sea). This …
More than 230,000 people have been left short of drinking water after a severe drought caused by El Nino gripped the northeastern province of Liaoning, local authorities said on Wednesday. Liaoning has seen high temperatures and dry conditions since the start of July, with the lowest rainfall since records began …
Update: 1:26PM THE south-west Pacific has experienced its fair share of natural disasters in the past two years and experts warn more may be on the way. The region has always been at the mercy of wild weather, but it is now also in the grip of an El Nino …
Global temperature records continued to tumble in June, as the strengthening El Nino in the Pacific combined with background warming from climate change. Land and sea-surface temperatures last month and for the first half of 2015 were the warmest in 136 years of records, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
