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2nd March 2020The giant fires in southeastern Australia are almost extinguished, but dry conditions expected in other regions are putting people in southeast Asia and the Caribbean at risk of future outbreaks.
Temperatures this year are likely to rise above the historical average, even without a presence of a warming El Niño event, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Abnormal drought conditions in southeast Asia, southern Africa, central America, the Caribbean, Oceania and western Australia between November and January are expected to persist.
“We just had the warmest January on record,” Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the WMO, said in a statement. “The signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as that from a major natural force of nature.”
The giant fires in southeastern Australia are almost extinguished, but dry conditions expected in other regions are putting people in southeast Asia and the Caribbean at risk of future outbreaks.
Temperatures this year are likely to rise above the historical average, even without a presence of a warming El Niño event, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Abnormal drought conditions in southeast Asia, southern Africa, central America, the Caribbean, Oceania and western Australia between November and January are expected to persist.
“We just had the warmest January on record,” Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the WMO, said in a statement. “The signal from human-induced climate change is now as powerful as that from a major natural force of nature.”