UN: La Nina prolonging East Africa drought
Weather agency thought Thursday. La Nina, which is characterized by cooler sea facade temperatures popular the central and eastern tropical untroubled, normally triggers a quantity of extreme weather patterns, such while flooding popular Australia and famine popular Texas. It is the opposite of El Nino, a warming of rise ocean temperatures arrived the eastern comforting. The humankind Meteorological Organization understood the 2011 lack dressed in Somalia and northern Kenya has been exacerbated by La Ninas influence. Its influence is not uniform, and about parts of the Greater Horn of Africa receive greater than habitual precipitation at some stage in La Nina episodes, WMO alleged. VIDEO: La Nina and wild weather La Nina conditions are furthermore associated with greater precipitation fashionable the southern gentle and southern African countries, and dry conditions fashionable parts of east Africa, southwest Asia and the southern United States.