Satellite observations of rainfall over indonesia, captured by the global precipitation measurement gpm mission, reveal diminished rainfall over parts of borneo and sumatra in september 2015. The effects depend strongly on the location and the season. The shift in the jet stream also leads to shifts in the occurrence of severe weather, and the number of tropical cyclones expected within the tropics in the atlantic and pacific oceans affected by changes in the ocean. Maps of rainfall for these years and others are available from our archives. Where the ocean is warm, more clouds form, and more rain falls in that part of the world. Typically, the equatorial trade winds blow from east to west across the pacific ocean. It typically lasts for about nine to twelve months. Wed like to understand how you use our websites in order to improve them. Manmade climate change effect on weather now as powerful as.
It causes severe storms, floods, drought, forest fires. Impact on georgia is a direct result of channel 2s goal to keep your family safe by alerting viewers to the upcoming possible dangerous weather, and how to best prepare to keep. For the first time since 1989, failed seasonal rains have led to. Recordbreaking warming and extreme drought in the amazon. Manmade climate change effect on weather now as powerful. Severity of the effects increases over past three decades. During mid october, the ssts continue to be anomalously warm with latest weekly average ssts in the nino3. In the pacific ocean, near the equator, the sun makes the water especially warm on the. Distributions of normal rainfall for both winter and summer are also shown. In the central and eastern pacific, there is a lot of yeartoyear variability. A more intensive phase of each event may last for about. The lowlevel surface winds, which normally blow from east to west along the equator easterly winds, instead weaken or, in some cases, start blowing the other direction from west to east.