COUNTRIES are racing to prepare for extreme weather later this year as the world tips into an El Nino – a natural climate phenomenon that fuels tropical cyclones in the Pacific and boosts rainfall and flood risk in parts of the Americas and elsewhere.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared on June 8 that an El Nino is now under way. The past three years have been dominated by the cooler La Nina pattern.
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