Wildfire season isn't over; US midterms; Flock

Hi, everybody.

My name's Sarah.

I'm a senior editor at Facto based in now Nairobi, Kenya.

I last did a presentation to this group the end of June, I think, and it was about extreme weather and El Nino.

And I'm afraid that's what I'm back to talk about again.

It's extreme weather, specifically wildfire events.

and El Nino.

And in the course of the time between today and the last time I did one of these, I've also moved from the drought side of the El Nino map to the flood side of the El Nino map.

And I have to say, people are talking about El Nino a lot here in Nairobi, Kenya.

I don't know if anybody else is on this side of Africa, but it was on the page two of the newspaper today, preps for the wet season, which is only weeks away.

So today I'm talking about fire.

This map on this slide is the... updates in the last six days, the six days to yesterday.

So as you can see, fires in Scotland, just about on that map, as well as across parts of Latin America and most of Europe.

So that's just a snippet, meant more as an illustration of how much we do actually cover this.

And we cover wildfires from a mix of sources and everywhere in the world.

And right now they are ongoing most places you can think of.

So, yeah, the end of July, the UN put out a statement.

Sorry, the World Meteorological Organization put out a statement.

And talking about how El Nino was, you know, everybody sort of more or less agrees that El Nino is coming.

It's likely to be a super El Nino.

But the statement sort of said, you know, it's here already.

It's happening now.

And August to October is meant to be.

It's kind of worsening.

So I'm going to talk about wildfire.

Hi, everybody.

My name's Sarah.

I'm a senior editor at Facto based in now Nairobi, Kenya.

I last did a presentation to this group the end of June, I think, and it was about extreme weather and El Nino.

And I'm afraid that's what I'm back to talk about again.

It's extreme weather, specifically wildfire events.

and El Nino.

And in the course of the time between today and the last time I did one of these, I've also moved from the drought side of the El Nino map to the flood side of the El Nino map.

And I have to say, people are talking about El Nino a lot here in Nairobi, Kenya.

I don't know if anybody else is on this side of Africa, but it was on the page two of the newspaper today, preps for the wet season, which is only weeks away.

So today I'm talking about fire.

This map on this slide is the... updates in the last six days, the six days to yesterday.

So as you can see, fires in Scotland, just about on that map, as well as across parts of Latin America and most of Europe.

So that's just a snippet, meant more as an illustration of how much we do actually cover this.

And we cover wildfires from a mix of sources and everywhere in the world.

And right now they are ongoing most places you can think of.

So, yeah, the end of July, the UN put out a statement.

Sorry, the World Meteorological Organization put out a statement.

And talking about how El Nino was, you know, everybody sort of more or less agrees that El Nino is coming.

It's likely to be a super El Nino.

But the statement sort of said, you know, it's here already.

It's happening now.

And August to October is meant to be.

It's kind of worsening.

So I'm going to talk about wildfire.