The intense weather Malaysia and the region have been suffering through will revert to normal conditions by the end of May, says the Meteorological Department, as coming rains ease the effects of the long heatwave and haze.
The Met Department’s Khairul Najib Ibrahim of the National Geophysics and Weather Operations Centre told Bernama that the current transitional monsoon phase is bringing in weak winds, but more importantly rain in the late evenings, helping to reduce the extremely high temperatures Malaysians have been subjected to since February.
In February, the El Nino global weather phenomenon touched down on Southeast Asia, ticking up the temperature dramatically as it carried heated air from the Pacific Ocean.
This year’s brush with El Nino has left several states skirting on the edge of a water supply crisis, as water levels in local dams saw a marked decrease.
