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Singapore on lookout for El Niño impact

Published on 18 June 2019 Singapore

A cyclist wearing a mask while riding along Gardens by the Bay East in October 2015. That year, a severe El Nino worsened forest fires in Indonesia and caused the region to suffer its worst haze crisis on record. PHOTO: ST FILEA cyclist wearing a mask while riding along Gardens by the Bay East in October 2015. That year, a severe El Nino worsened forest fires in Indonesia and caused the region to suffer its worst haze crisis on record. PHOTO: ST FILE

The notoriously difficult-to-predict El Niño weather pattern that clouded Singapore in a haze crisis four years ago could be back in some form this year.

But this time, the Republic will be better prepared for it.

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Source: Straits Times 9 June 2019