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- The Global Seasonal Climate Update is prepared and released by World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
- There are now 13 WMO Global Producing Centres of Long Range Forecasts.
- According to WMO, La Niña weather phenomenon is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean after nearly a decade’s absence.
- La Niña could last into 2021 and the La Niña of 2020 is expected to be moderate to strong.
- La Niña means the large-scale cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
- It has the opposite impacts on weather and climate as El Niño, which is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
- In India, La Niña means the country will receive more rainfall than normal, leading to floods.
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