Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Rainfall
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Kenya: Heavy Rains Kill Five More At the Coast, Cause Landslides in Nyeri
Five more people died in Kwale following heavy rains that have been pounding the Coast. This brings the total number of lives lost to the downpour at the Coast to 14. Nine people died in Mombasa
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Tanzania: Misery As Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc Across the Country
Dar es Salaam — The ongoing rain has continued to wreak havoc across the country with reports that some people have fled to churches and mosques to seek shelter after their houses were destroyed in Tanga
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Drought in Kunene persists
Ongwediva-Despite the good rains experienced this year in most parts of the country Kunene has received minimal rainfall, which made no significant impact on the livelihood of communities and livestock
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Indian Ocean is warming faster than others, says NCAOR
PANAJI: Indian Ocean is warming and it is warming faster than all other oceans as it is hemmed in by the Asian land mass. "We are more worried, because the Indian ocean is warming much faster than other
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Climate change brings more Sahel storms
Climate change has already made a difference to life in the West African Sahel, the arid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea which separates the Sahara desert from the African savanna.
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Kenya hospital wall collapses in heavy rain, killing six
At least six people, including four children, were killed in Kenya's port city of Mombasa on Monday after a hospital wall collapsed under heavy rain, officials said. "Among the dead are four children
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Western Cape dam levels at 20%
CAPE TOWN – The Western Cape government on Monday appealed to residents to continue to push hard to save water as dam levels dropped to 20 percent. Anton Bredell, MEC of Local Government, Environmental
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City of Montreal declares state of emergency from flooding
The city of Montreal declared a state of emergency on Sunday afternoon as floodwaters spread from torrential rains that have lashed the city since early on Friday, causing the worst flooding in decades,
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Delayed and very brief 'long rains' to worsen Kenya food security
Kenya’s food security is expected to remain precarious following a delayed poor long rains which also affected the 2016 cropping season and the prolonged drought ravaging many parts of the country, says
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Multimodel precipitation responses to removal of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions
Emissions of aerosols and their precursors are declining due to policies enacted to protect human health, yet we currently lack a full understanding of the magnitude, spatiotemporal pattern, statistical