1
1National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil
2Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, State University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil
3State of São Paulo Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil
4CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies/National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil
5Paula Souza State Technological Education Center, São Paulo, Brazil
The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world s largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal has suffered a prolonged drought that has spelled disaster for the region, and subsequent fires have engulfed hundreds of thousands of hectares. The lack of rainfall during the summers of 2019 and 2020 was caused by reduced transport of warm and humid summer air from Amazonia into the Pantanal. Instead, a predominance of warmer and drier air masses from subtropical latitudes contributed to a
Somalia Seasonal Monitor: December 24, 2020 | Humanitarian News humanitariannews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from humanitariannews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Somalia Seasonal Monitor: December 24, 2020
Format
FEWS NET publishes a Seasonal Monitor for Somalia every 10 days (dekad) through the end of the current October to December deyr rainy season.
The purpose of this document is to provide updated information on the progress of the deyrseason to facilitate contingency and response planning.
This Somalia Seasonal Monitor is valid through December 31, 2020, and is produced in collaboration with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) Somalia, the Somali Water and Land Information System (SWALIM), a number of other agencies, and several Somali nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Deyr rainfall season ends, with most of Somalia receiving little to no rainfall in mid-December During the December 11-20 period, most of Somalia received little to no rainfall. According to both field information and preliminary Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) imagery, only