Sentences with phrase «normal rainfall season»
Predictions by the Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum of a normal to below - normal rainfall season this year spell disaster for Southern Africa's agricultural sector in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa.
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Sea surface temperatures in the Central Pacific and North Atlantic were cooler than normal, which lead to increased rainfall across the southern Amazon in the months preceding the fire season.
But with only 15 per cent of normal rainfall in January, usually one of the wettest months, and the rainy season drawing to a close, they are desperately short of water.
WA Regional Climate Services Manager Mr Glenn Cook explained that the high rainfall was due to an active monsoon season in the north of the state, as a result of the current La Nina and aided by warmer than normal waters off the WA north coast.
The regional consensus climate outlook for the September to December 2015 rainfall season indicates increased likelihood of above normal to near normal rainfall over most of the equatorial parts of the GHA.
Extreme rainfall was not as much of a feature of 2013 globally as it has been in some recent years, though monsoon season rainfall was generally above normal both in the Indian subcontinent and the Sahel region of west and central Africa.