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Floods Displace Hundreds in Kenya As Dry Spell Forecast
Hundreds of people have been displaced by floods in parts of the north Rift Valley region of Kenya even as the meteorological department forecasts drier conditions in the coming months.
Carbon Dioxide has Played Leading Role in Dictating Global Climate Patterns
Increasingly, the Earth’s climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Niño, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn heat waves and droughts as far away as Africa. Science...
A Cooler Pacific May have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America
A new study from the University of Miami has found a connection between La Nina-like sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific and droughts in western Europe and in what later became the southwestern United States and Mexico, as published in a recent...
Chinese, Australian Scientists Introduce New Weather Index
A new climatic index developed by Australian and Chinese researchers will help scientists understand why southwestern Western Australia has experienced such a decline in rainfall over the past 40 years. The Southwest Australian Circulation Index (SWACI)...
Research From NASA Finds Last Decade Was Warmest On Record
A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record.
Malawi Meteorologists Predicting Mild to Moderate El Nino Phenomenon in 2009/10 Rainfall Season
The department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services in Malawi have said in their rainfall seasonal forecast that the country is going to face an El Niño phenomenon during the 2009/ 2010 rainfall season. El Niño conditions are usually associated...
