PORT VILA, VANUATU, March 23, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- With climate warming on the world-wide agenda, it is amazing to find the United States has just suffered the coldest winter in the past 25 years and the 19th wettest winter ever recorded, according to the National Climatic Data Centre.
Now the US settles into its tornado season, where a 79-year old man, sheltering in his single storey wood-frame home, has become the first victim. One person was injured as another tornado ripped through Haines City, Florida, destroying four condos and damaging fifteen others. Two other tornadoes caused minor damage in central Florida.
Along the Mid-Atlantic coast up to four inches of rain have been predicted, combined with the melting of the winter's major snowstorms. With the soil already saturated from the heavy snowstorms, flooding is anticipated.
Further to the north of the continent, however, David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, issued a cautioned for potential 'horrific' water shortages, insect infestations and wildfires this summer, due to Canada experiencing its warmest and driest winter on record. Phillips blamed El Nino for the warm winter weather and the severe loss of arctic sea ice last fall.
Canadian winters have warmed, on average, by 2.5degrees centigrade over the past 63 years.
Australia in the Southern Hemisphere, one of the world's driest continents, is slowly emerging from what scientists have called the 'one in a thousand years drought'.
Over the past 8 years the Australia continent has had the worst drought in living memory, with over half of Australia's farmland held in the bondage of drought conditions.
The Murray-Darling river system, which receives 4% of Australia's water, but provides three-quarters of the water consumed nationally, was already at 54% below the previous record minimum, as far back as 2006. The drought update to the Murray and Darling River systems still shows the mighty river to be in very poor condition.
Mike Young, a water management expert at the University of Adelaide, informed Reuters that Australia's long-term climate was changing. "When the drought breaks we will not return to cooler, wetter conditions. It is the worst type of drought because we are not expecting to return back to the old regime. The last half of last century was much wetter. What we seem to have done is ... built Australia on the assumption that it was going to be wetter, and we haven't been prepared to make the change back to a much drier regime."
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