The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
The El Niño weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this El Niño was already …
A group of U.N. experts tasked with forecasting the next disasters likely to require billions of dollars in humanitarian aid has warned of deepening crises in global hotspots from Burundi to Afghanistan over the next six months. In an unusually frank assessment for a U.N. publication, the six-monthly "Alert, Early …
The powerful "Great Godzilla" El Nino in the Pacific may last as much as two months longer than expected because of another unusual climate phenomenon scientists have nick-named "The Blob". First observed in 2013, the huge "blob" of abnormally warm water extends from the Californian coast far into the Pacific. …
"After the rain, there was a silence followed by terrible thunder and lightning," says 63-year-old resident Cristina Inga. Her house was destroyed first by flooding, and then tonnes of rocks tumbled down from the mountain. "We survived by escaping through the roof," she recalls. "All the neighbours did the same; …
The Australian state of Victoria is on track for its hottest and third driest October on record, as the effects of a severe El Nino weather pattern take hold. Bureau of Meteorologist climatologist Jonathan Pollock said on Wednesday that the difference between the average and the actual maximum temperatures across …
The possibility of a normal monsoon is high next year though its onset might be delayed because of the tail end of El Nino. Amid reports from forecasters about the possibility of El Nino continuing during the first few months of 2016, experts from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) found …
This study describes integration of climate change projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) multi-model ensemble with the LARS-WG weather generator, which delivers an attractive option for the downscaling of large-scale climate projections from global climate models (GCMs) to local-scale climate scenarios for impact assessments. A subset …
The UN has urged Pacific island nations to prepare now for a looming El Nino emergency which could affect more than 4 million people, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday. The UN resident coordinator in Fiji, Osnat Lubrani, said that there are suggestions that this El Nino could …
Global projections of intense tropical cyclone activity are derived from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) High Resolution Atmospheric Model (HiRAM; 50-km grid) and the GFDL hurricane model using a two-stage downscaling procedure. First, tropical cyclone genesis is simulated globally using HiRAM. Each storm is then downscaled into the GFDL …
Global temperature records continue to tumble, with August easily the hottest in 124 years of data, Japan's Meteorological Agency says. Last month, near-surface land and sea temperatures were 0.45 degrees higher than the 1981-2010 average, eclipsing the previous biggest anomaly for August of 0.33 degrees set last year. The massive …
Meteorologists have predicted that Britain will face its worst winter in over 50 years as a result of El Niño. The country is expected to be hit by a cold wave as early as October, cutting down autumn to just a month. Experts even fear a repeat of 1963, the …
Climate models suggest the 2015 El Nino will peak around the end of the year and will then rapidly weaken within three months, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday. The 2015 El Nino is expected to be the strongest event in nearly 20 years, the bureau has said …
Farmers across India who are already hit by unseasonal rains this year have to brace up as a report on Monday said that the country is headed towards the driest monsoon season for the third time in three decades. Renewing concerns over poor harvest and spike in food inflation, the …
The world is starting to heat up again, say British scientists, raising speculation that a 15-year slowdown in the rate of global warming could be coming to an end. A pause in the rate of global temperature rises since the late 1990s has baffled climate scientists and led some to …
Japan's weather bureau said on Thursday that an El Nino weather pattern was continuing and reiterated there was a strong possibility it would stretch into winter. The current El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to peak between October and January and could turn into one of the strongest on record, …
Climate officials warn winter’s weather pattern likely to be one of the strongest as effects are likely to be felt from December to March Climate officials are warning that this winter’s El Niño weather pattern is likely to be one of the strongest on record, bringing huge storms and a …
Meteorologists are churning through the alphabet to come up with new names for storms, as what US space agency NASA dubs the "tropical train" spawns yet another cyclone. Hurricane Linda is the latest tropical storm to achieve hurricane strength as the depression strengthened quickly on Monday off the southern tip …
The government has set aside Sh5 billion and put on standby 70,000 National Youth Service members in readiness for the destructive El Nino rains expected from October. This is part of an emergency plan revealed by Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday. The plan brings together all ministries and will …
Australia increased its wheat production estimate after El Nino-defying rain in winter boosted the outlook for yields in key growing regions. Output may total 25.3 million metric tons in 2015-16 from 23.6 million tons forecast in June, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics & Sciences said in a …
Britons may not have had much to smile about weather-wise recently – having endured the coldest summer for three years – but things are set to change with a week of sunshine and warm temperatures before unsettled weather returns. “No one can deny that we have had a pretty disappointing …
