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Article: 1997-98: the year of El Nino. (includes personal narrative on El Nino at Kenya)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Weather patterns here have been turned upside down. We are in February in the midst of a terrible heat wave - usually February is a cool month, says Manfred Topke, a grower in Guatemala.
El Nino is no longer an obscure, occasional weather system that few people have heard of or that is vaguely explained. The impact from this year's El Nino is being felt globally and the result is that people everywhere know what it is. Even more to the point, they know what it has caused. And we all are left wondering, with uncertainty, what it suggests about our global future. For coffee growers worldwide, the questions are entirely more relevant and the problems caused by El Nino ...