Pakistan among 20 countries at risk of heavy rainfall this year

• There’s threat of flooding in Pakistan this 12 months: report. 
• El Nino anticipated to return June. 
• It poses excessive dangers to world meals safety.

Pakistan is amongst 20 nations which can be dealing with the specter of extreme rainfall because the El Nino oceanographic phenomenon is forecast to return in June, a United Nations report stated. 

In line with the report by the World Info and Early Warning System (GIEWS) of the Meals and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), there’s a threat of heavy rainfall and flooding in Pakistan this 12 months as nicely.

The opposite nations embrace Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhu­tan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Paraguay, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkm­e­nistan, United States and Uzbekistan.

The report highlights that this phenomenon is predicted to return in June 2023, following three years of La Niña. 

it additional stated that dry climate situations are anticipated in key cropping areas of Central America, Southern Africa and Far East Asia, whereas extreme rainfall and potential flooding are foreseen in Close to East Asia and East Africa.

The report said that El Nino is a key driver of maximum climate occasions that pose excessive dangers to world meals safety. 

“Already in 2022, the variety of folks dealing with acute meals insecurity was projected to succeed in as much as 222 million in 53 nations/territories,” stated the report. 

The report stated the world skilled a 3rd consecutive La Nina occasion in 2022 and early 2023, a uncommon incidence that has occurred solely twice since 1950. 

La Nina occasions are generally related to wetter situations in Australia and drier situations within the US, South America and East Africa.