The appeal speaks to the fact that this has been the most anticipated El Niño event in history against the backdrop of improved forecasts that increasingly see it becoming one of the most intense ever, and growing awareness about its impacts.
A couple of things come to mind from this state of affairs. The first is that some provincial governments did not do their jobs. The second is that there are concerns about past overestimates.
La Niña is fading — some forecasters say it is already done and dusted — but there are hopeful signs that this weather pattern, which typically brings good rains to southern Africa, will bounce back by spring.
The World Meteorological Organization still sees the odds favouring the La Niña weather pattern forming this year, but it has
The El Niño weather pattern has faded and its polar opposite, La Niña, is widely expected to re-emerge soon as the surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific cool. Here are a few points about these phenomena, the consequences of the latest El Niño and the anticipated effects of La Niña.
