GENEVA (AFP) – The United Nations (UN) warned on Wednesday of a growing likelihood the weather phenomenon El Nino will develop in coming months, fuelling higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said it now estimated there was a 60-per-cent chance that El Nino would develop by the end of July, and an 80-per-cent chance it would do so by the end of September.
El Nino, which is a naturally occurring climate pattern typically associated with increased heat worldwide, as well as drought in some parts of the world and heavy rains elsewhere, last occurred in 2018-19.
More details in Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin.
