North-eastern Africa warned to brace for weather whiplash with heat, floods, droughts, fires as El Nino builds up in Pacific Ocean
Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast it will rival – or exceed – a record El Nino that began in 1997 and helped trigger billions of dollars in damage from heat waves, floods, droughts, tornadoes and wildfires.
Estimated death toll in southern Africa flooding crosses 200 as over 2,000 others forced out of homes and 600 tourists evacuated
The death toll across South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe is an accumulation after weeks of heavy rains. Weather services issued warnings that more rain was on the way, possibly bringing more destructive flooding.
