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Is climate change causing the long lasting droughts in Somalia?

The climate is the weather condition of a country or a place over many years. For example in Somalia, a country located in the so-called Horn of Africa, the climate is tropical, hot all year round, and in addition, it is generally dry. Precipitation is generally scarce, typical of a desert or semi-desert climate in vast areas, while the wettest areas are occupied by savannah. More formally, the climate is the long-term average of temperature, precipitation, and other weather variables at a given location. Every 30 years, climate scientists calculate new averages. The normal high and low temperatures reported on your local weather forecast come from these 30-year averages.

Climate change is the significant variation of average weather conditions, such conditions becoming warmer, wetter, or drier over several decades or more. It’s that longer-term trend that differentiates climate change from natural weather variability. Climate changes here weather and seasons, when rain seasons come late or are missed all that year it is definitely climate change and that could be the most effects that Somalia had the last decades. And while “climate change” and “global warming” are often used interchangeably, global warming the recent rise in the global average temperature near the earth’s surface is just one aspect of climate change.

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