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Brewing El Nino among strongest on record WMO
2015-11-16 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A "very strong El Nino set to continue into next year is among the three most powerful on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The UN weather agency said it will soon know if this year`s phenomenon will beat 1997-98s event, which disrupted global rainfall patterns and caused billion-dollar economic losses. 1972-73 and 1982-83 were other strong El Nino years. [T]his El Nino is one of three strongest for more than 50 years, Michel Jarraud, head of the Vienna-based body...
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El Nio strengthening, will be among biggest on record: WMO
2015-11-16 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The current El Nio weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this El Nio was already "strong and mature" and the biggest in more than 15 years. The phenomenon is driven by warm surface water in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and this time three-month averages will peak at...
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WMO: Premature to Tell If Intense Heat Linked to Climate Change
2015-07-03 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: The World Meteorological Organization said it is too soon to know whether intense heat waves sweeping Europe, parts of the United States and southern China are linked to climate change. The WMO said more investigation is needed to determine the cause of the phenomenon. Millions of people throughout Europe are wilting under temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius, in some cases. The World Meteorological Organization warned no immediate respite from the extreme heat is in sight as many parts...
WMO Warns Lima Delegates 2014 May Be Hottest Year
2014-12-03 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As negotiators at the latest global climate meeting gather this week in Lima, Peru, to hammer out a new international agreement to limit emissions of the greenhouse gases fueling global warming, they are receiving a stark reminder of that warming. Global annual average temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961-1990 average) for 1950-2013, based on an average of the three data sets from NASA, NOAA and the U.K. Met Office. The January-to-October average is shown for 2014. The colouring of the...
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WMO: 80% chance of El Nio by December 2014
2014-06-27 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: It is very likely that an El Nio will take place by the end of the year, the UNs World Meteorological Organisation has said, strengthening scientists predictions that 2014 could be one of the hottest years on record. El Nio, which means little boy in Spanish, is a natural weather event that occurs every two to seven years. It is characterised by unusually warm surface temperatures in the ocean in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. There is a 60% chance that an El Nio will be established...