PETALING JAYA: An action plan to deal with the effects of El Nino must be drafted now as weather experts warn that the country’s current heatwave is only a precursor to drier and hotter conditions to come.
The warning comes following the end of three years of cooler and wetter La Nina weather, with El Nino having a 60% chance of making a comeback by the end of this year.
“They will be clearing the backlog once conditions get drier due to El Nino, resulting in transboundary haze returning,” he said yesterday. During the El Nino in 1998 and 2016, parts of Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore were blanketed by thick haze due to hundreds of peat soil fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan.Several districts in Malaysia, especially in Kelantan, are currently experiencing the first warning for a heatwave, which sees a maximum daily temperature of between 35ºC and 37ºC for at least three days in a row.
“It will not only impact us but also crop-growing nations in the region, which we rely on for rice and grain imports.The previous El Nino, Prof Azizan pointed out, affected rice production in Kedah, where farmers only managed to sow their padi fields once instead of twice a year. “We are still silent here on El Nino. My advice is for the authorities and the public to take the possible impacts of El Nino in critical sectors in the country seriously.
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