The El Nino continues to strengthen in the Pacific, exceeding by at least one measure the monster event of 1997-98, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Global temperature records continued to tumble in June, as the strengthening El Nino in the Pacific combined with background warming from climate change.
Spatially extensive and persistent drought episodes have repeatedly influenced human history, including the 'Strange Parallels' drought event in monsoon Asia during the mid-18th century. Here we explore the dynamics of sustained monsoon failure using observed and tree-ring reconstructed drought patterns and a 1300-year pre-industrial community earth system model control run. Both modern observational and climate model drought patterns during years with extremely weakened South Asian monsoon resemble those reconstructed for the Strange Parallels drought.
A device called 'Smart Citizen', that tracks elements of weather such as the amount of carbon dioxiode, nitrogen oxide, sound levels and humidity will soon be selling in Namibia.
Last month was the hottest June on record worldwide by a wide margin, Japan Meteorological Agency said, increasing the likelihood that 2015 will also be the warmest.
Competing forecasts have injected a new dimension to the hazardous business of monsoon prediction this year, with private weather agency Skymet taking a completely different view of how rains would
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It hasn't washed away the fears of deficit rainfall, but the monsoon's satisfactory performance so far has sharply reduced the possibility of a second consecutive drought in the country this year.
Circling thousands of feet above Tasmania's farmland in a light aircraft, Christina Nebel prepares to release tiny chemical particles as part of a cloud-seeding scheme estimated to have helped boos