Good news for your laundry! The hot weather sparked by El Nino is set to stay until March!
This also means that you’ll have to stay hydrated at all times and it’s perhaps a good idea to not indulge in open burning of any kind.
Malaysian Meteorological Department director-general Datuk Che Gayah Ismail told Bernama that the monsoon activities bringing cold surges from China and Siberia have lessened, resulting in reduced rainfall in the country.
“The condition results in a drop in rainfall of between 20 and 60 per cent for most areas in the country rendering the weather hot and dry with temperatures rising by 0.5 to 2.0 degree Celsius,” she was quoted as saying, adding that the El Nino phenomenon was the reason the lower number of floods in the country despite heavy downpours.
