There is a 90 per cent chance El Nino will persist till year’s end, and it will be “at least of moderate strength”, the UN’s weather agency warns. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA – Temperatures are expected to soar further across large parts of the world after the El Nino weather pattern emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Tuesday.
WMO said there was a 90 per cent probability of El Nino persisting in the second half of 2023, and that it was expected to be “at least of moderate strength”. “To tell you whether it be this year or next year is difficult,” Mr Wilfran Moufouma Okia, head of regional climate prediction service at WMO, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. “What we know is that throughout the next five years, we are likely to have one of the warmest years on record.”
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