GENEVA: The El Nino climate sample has begun to weaken however will proceed to gasoline above common temperatures throughout the globe, the World Meteorological Group (WMO) stated on Tuesday (Mar 5).
El Nino is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon related to a disruption of wind patterns meaning hotter ocean floor temperatures within the japanese and central Pacific.
El Nino, which happens on common each two to seven years, usually lasts 9 to 12 months and might provoke excessive climate phenomena comparable to wildfires, tropical cyclones and extended droughts.
WMO spokesperson Claire Nullis stated El Nino had peaked in December and would go down as one of many 5 strongest in historical past.
“It is now regularly weakening, however clearly it is going to proceed to impression the worldwide local weather within the coming months,” she advised reporters in Geneva.
“We do count on above regular temperatures within the coming months, between March and Might, and general in most land areas.”