The South African Weather Service warns of possibly hot and dry summer ahead
El Niño usually causes drought conditions in South Africa, such as the Western Cape drought of 2015 - 2017 which led to fears of taps running dry in Cape Town.
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is one of the most important climate events on earth. It is characterised by cyclical changes in sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure patterns, and has two primary states: El Niño and La Niña. Both El Niño and La Niña occur in two-to-seven-year cycles, with an in-between transitional period of 'neutrality' where ocean temperatures, rain patterns in the tropics, and the winds in the equatorial Pacific Ocean stick to the long-term averages.that the ENSO climate pattern"is humming along in the tropical Pacific Ocean as of early October 2023" and that it's"virtually certain El Niño will last through Northern Hemisphere winter".
But in addition to an El Niño event, farmers will more than likely have to continue to contend with loadshedding. Last year loadshedding caused aWorking Group 1 report
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