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Professional opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!! From someone that failed their GED?
The El Nino is presently Mega. Over 2.5, in fact, 2.9 for this week. Silly Billy, you are such a loser liar.
The latest weekly SST departures are:
Niño 4 1.7ºC
Niño 3.4 2.9ºC
Niño 3 2.9ºC
Niño 1+2 2.4ºC
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf
Silly little ass, Billy, time to drop the pants again.
^ weather, not climate
The DRC's capital endures a long rainy season each year, but with likely help from El Nino, Kinshasa has been hit with almost 18 inches of rain since Nov. 17, amounting to about a third of the annual rainfall.
The city of 11 million people -- third largest in Africa after Lagos, Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt -- sits on the southern bank of the Congo River, where the areas at the river's edge have been affected the worst.
Kinshasa's wet season stretches from October to May, but because of the El Nino system, the wet season will be excessive and more flooding is likely. The El Nino also means much of southern Africa will probably suffer drought.
More than 30 dead in floods in Democratic Republic of Congo
“They kill us from hunger, now they’re exterminating us with water,” Jocelyne Kapinga said, wading through mud, slime and fecal matter swirling centimeters above the heels of her rubber boots. Since Nov. 19, “we have recorded 31 deaths due to the collapse of homes” in repeated downpours, Kinshasa Interior Minister Emmanuel Akweti said. The city’s wet season normally runs from October to May, but this year the rains began only in the middle of last month, with a third of the average annual rainfall — or 450mm of water — falling in less than three weeks, Akweti said.
In Ndanu, an impoverished southeastern district of Kinshasa, people have been hit especially badly by this year’s unusually heavy rains. The area sits near the Ndjili and Matete tributaries of the giant Congo River and, in the 1970s, served as a water reserve to irrigate vast rice-fields run by Chinese aid organizations. However, as the city’s population expanded relentlessly to hit 10 million, flimsy shacks and huts sprouted across the area to house about 50,000 people, but without sewerage or any kind of urban planning. Most of the deaths from the recent floods occurred in the city’s particularly impoverished southern and eastern districts, notably along the banks of the giant Congo River.
Saying more heavy rain is forecast from now until the end of this month, Akweti urged people in flooded areas “to leave their homes without delay.” “We are convinced the unusual rainfall is connected to climate change,” Akweti said. However, one Ndanu resident brushed off the claim, saying: “Every year there’s flooding, the authorities don’t do anything about it, they don’t care.” Women and children there were busy scooping smelly yellowed water into old saucepans with their bare hands, the children in water to their waists. Schools were empty, furniture and the odd electrical appliance piled high to keep dry, and in places fecal matter floated in stagnant water as makeshift sewage pits overflowed.
At the Saint-Bernard school, about 30 classrooms have been totally submerged by the rains, with only the tops of some desks still visible. “What are the authorities waiting for to build concrete dams,” said Mangala Nsenge, a 70-year-old speaking out on behalf of others. “Elections are coming up, but whoever comes here will be in for trouble,” he said, angrily adding: “Where are they? They’ve abandoned us.” In hopes of keeping back the water, Ndanu residents have built a thin bamboo fence reinforced by bags of sand. “We built this ourselves, without any help from the government or the town hall,” said Raph Kayembe, an unemployed man in his 50s. “Every year we’re under water.”
Torrential rains leave 31 dead, thousands homeless - Taipei Times
Climate, silly ass. This El Nino exceeds any in the past. And the effects exceed any in the past. Just as the 1997-98 El Nino did. A series of ever stronger El Nino's is to be expected in a warming world.
