Weather
La Niña Weather Expected to Continue into 2021
The United Nations weather agency says a continuing weather event places some countries at risk of weather-related problems.
The World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, predicts La Niña will continue to affect the world’s weather through January. The weather event is expected to bring drier and wetter conditions than normal to different parts of the world.
La Niña is a weather pattern that happens in the Pacific Ocean but affects weather around the world. A La Niña event happens when ocean surface waters cool along the Pacific coast of the South American tropics. This takes place about every two to seven years.
The latest predictions show La Niña will cause drier than normal conditions in much of East Africa and lead to more rainfall in southern Africa. Central Asia is likely to see below normal rainfall earlier than usual.
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Fri 4 Dec 2020 at 13:32
