cooling effect of #AustralianWildfires equivalent to switching off a 3-watt bulb over every square meter of the ocean region. And that cooling, their data showed, shifted the cloud and rain belt called the #IntertropicalConvergenceZone northward…impacts of the rare 3-year #LaNiña, late '19 through '22, intensified #drought and #famine in #EasternAfrica, primed the #AtlanticOcean region for #hurricanes, as 2020 became the most active #tropicalstorm season on record…
