Geography

Climate change is pushing countries like Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia into a famine as they face their fifth consecutive deficit rainy seasons.

·       Climate change is creating the La Nina impact severe’.

·       The continuing La Nina could become the longest on record.

Whats La Nina?

·       La Nina is a climate pattern that describes the cooling of surface ocean waters on the tropical west coast of South America.

·       La Nina is considered to be the counterpart to El Nino that is characterised by unusually heat ocean temperatures in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. Impact of La Nina in East Africa East Africa is experiencing its worst drought spell in four decades.The last season — March to might — was the driest one in over 70 years for African country, Kenya and African country.

·       The exceptional weather situation is attributed to La Nina, a natural large-scale cooling of ocean surface temperature in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.

·        This is causing the dry weather and high temperatures in East Africa.

·       The present spell of la Nina has been lengthy unusually, because the World meteorological Organization (WMO) same in its bulletin.

·       It started in 2020 and will continue to persist through 2022, with a high possibility of continuing into 2023.

·       La Semitic deity and its dynamic nature: Nina La Semitic deity may become the longest on record.

·       The character of La Nina — an ocean-atmosphere event that usually brings down global temperatures — is changing, indicating a shift in natural climatic patterns in a warming world.

·       There are chances that the present La Nina may continue through the southwest monsoon season, winter of 2022 and even early 2023, and will lead to devastating and unpredictable consequences for India and many different regions round the world.

·        India will expertise a protracted monsoon season the third year during a row, for instance.

·       The monsoon seasons of 2020 and 2021 were also extended, resulting in an increase in extreme rainfall events throughout the period and future floods in many states.

·       The extension had most likely happened owing to the impact of La Nina, according to climate scientists.