Sri Lanka's Drought Crisis : El Nino
HANDS OF HOPE: CYCLONE EL NINO RELIEF El Nino is a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by the unusual warming of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Under normal conditions, trade winds blow warm water westward toward Asia, but during an El Nino event, these winds weaken or reverse. This shift fundamentally alters global atmospheric circulation, dramatically changing weather patterns worldwide and triggering intense heatwaves, prolonged droughts, or torrential rainfall depending on the region. El Nino originates when the normal east-to-west trade winds over the Pacific Ocean weaken or reverse, causing warm ocean surface water to shift eastward toward South America instead of staying near Asia. This abnormal warming of the sea surface heats the atmos...