El Nino - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
2015- 2016 El Nino weather phenomenon has continued its decline and have strong influence on international climate patterns, according to UN weather agency World Meteorological Organisation. El Nino which is the warm phase of ENSO or El Nino Southern Oscillation occurs every 2 to 7 years. It may have passed its peak, but it continues to raise ocean temperature. One of the most powerful El Nino events is the one in 2015-2016, said to be the worst in 15 years whereby ocean temperatures were more than 2.0 degree C above average. This phenomenon has fuelled record global heat in the current year and is comparable to the ones in the 1982-83 and 1997-98 span.

ANSWER: Atacama

Explanation:
Due to a disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Nino, a massive carpet of flowers has covered the most arid desert in the world, Chilean Atacama desert. In the vast desert of Northern Chile, the El Nino effect has caused explosion of numerous species of flowers in an otherwise arid region where temperatures would soar to 40 degree C. Various types of flowers have flourished including Nolana paradoxa, Bomarea ovallei and Rhodophiala rhodolirion. The reason for this bloom is the El Nino phenomenon altering weather patterns across the Pacific region.