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. …
The threat of an El Nino weather event is receding with atmospheric conditions over the Pacific largely failing to respond to warming ocean waters, the Bureau of Meteorology. The chances of an El Nino, which typically bring warmer-than-average temperatures to Australia and south-east Asia and lower rainfall, are now about …
Intermittent showers brought temporary relief to Delhiites, although proper monsoon downpour continues to play truant. In the absence of any prolonged precipitation, maximum temperatures remained above normal on Monday with Safdarjung recording 37.4 degrees Celsius and Palam 38.5 degrees Celsius. By 8-30 p.m., Sadarjung had received 2.6 mm of rainfall. …
Pacific Ocean temperatures have eased in recent weeks and an El Nino weather event later this year is now indicated by only a slight majority of climate models, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday. "While the chance of an El Nino in 2014 has clearly eased, warmer-than-average waters …
Among the measures that were announced by President Juan Manuel Santos late on Thursday were drilling water wells, purchasing water trucks, subsidizing animal feed and offering financing to the agricultural sector. Santos also said Colombia would buy helicopters and other equipment to fight wildfires sparked by the hot dry weather. …
A new study shows that when synchronized with El Niño/La Niña cycles, climate models accurately predict global surface warming Predicting global surface temperature changes in the short-term is a challenge for climate models. Temperature changes over periods of a decade or two can be dominated by influences from ocean cycles …
Drought fears will subside if the momentum generated is maintained in August After playing truant for almost 45 days, the southwest monsoon has started showing strong signs of revival in the critical western, central and northern parts of the country since Tuesday but this has not totally erased fears of …
Expectations of a strong El Nino weather event in the Pacific are being pared back but warmer-than-usual conditions are expected to persist, meteorologists say. The latest prediction by the Bureau of Meteorology retains the 70 per cent or more likelihood that an El Nino will form this year with sea-surface …
Cooling of the Pacific Ocean over the last month means the El Niño forecast to hit later this year is increasingly unlikely to be a strong event, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The BOM maintained its forecast for an El Niño to form over the next …
The odds of a strong El Nino, which brings drought to the Asia-Pacific region and heavy rains to South America, are increasingly unlikely after the tropical Pacific Ocean cooled, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. A general lack of atmospheric response over the last month resulted in some cooling, the …
Various trade unions and social organisations, including the RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), criticised the first Budget of the Narendra Modi Government. They said the Budget failed to give any new prescriptions for the burgeoning problems of the country. The BMS, though expressing overall satisfaction with the Budget’s direction, condemned …
The U.S. weather forecaster maintained its outlook for the El Nino weather phenomenon in its monthly update on Thursday, pegging the chances of the weather pattern striking during the Northern Hemisphere summer at 70 percent. The Climate Prediction Center, an agency of the National Weather Service, said there was close …
Scotland is on course for its second warmest year ever recorded, according to analysis by Friends of the Earth. Every month in 2014 has been warmer, and four were more than 1C warmer than the 1981-2010 average, the environmental group said. Spring has been the warmest since records began, with …
Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that the possibility of an El Nino pattern forming this summer is lower than previously forecast, but it sees a high chance in autumn. The Japan Meteorological Agency, which said last month that the El Nino phenomenon could emerge this summer and last at …
GDP is expected to grow in the range of 5.4-5.9 per cent in 2014-15. There are downward risks to the economy arising from poor monsoon, external environment and poor investment climate, states the Economic Survey 2014 tabled in the Lok Sabha today. The Survey calls for putting public finance on …
Floods, storms and other natural disasters claimed more than 2,700 lives and caused around $42 billion in damage worldwide in the first half of 2014, but this was well below the first half of last year and a 10-year average, reinsurer Munich Re said on Wednesday. The world's biggest reinsurer …
Met Dept has projected below normal monsoon at 93% of the long period average for this year After three years of bumper crop harvest, India's agriculture production may be impacted this year if a likely El Nino torpedoes monsoon rainfall, putting pressure on food prices, the Economic Survey said today. …
According to the Economic Survey 2013-14 presented in the Parliament on 9 July 2014 the growth rates of productivity in agriculture sector are far below global standards and the productivity levels of rice and wheat have declined after the green revolution of the 1980s. It has also expressed concern over …
Having suffered setbacks for years due to inadequacy of water for cultivation, farmers in the district now dread indications of El Nino weather phenomenon affecting the South-West monsoon pattern. This year, the Public Works Department has been able to release water only for the old ayacut area of the Bhavani …
Queensland scientists say research has shown rises in sea temperature for past 150 years has been linked to mass coral death The Great Barrier Reef is set to be ravaged by the expected El Niño weather phenomenon and scientists warn that similar warming events have significantly impacted upon the reef’s …
