MANILA: The Philippines is facing an El Nino-spawned dry spell that will cut rainfall by as much as 80% and hit food production, a government weather forecaster warned.
“There will be many places that we expect to have below normal rainfall as early as August,” warned Anthony Lucero, head of the climate monitoring and weather prediction division of the government weather station.
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