Extreme weather creating urgent need for better forecasts

AlertNet: Since returning to farming after decades of displacement during Sri Lanka's long civil war, Kusmalatha Tammitta has faced a new enemy: extreme weather, particularly long droughts followed by bursts of heavy rain. "There are 22 wells in this village. All are dry,' Tammitta told AlertNet. After an eight-month drought, she said, she had lost two acres of paddy land and a banana plot of around 300 trees. "There are around 100 coconut trees we planted in the village since we returned. All are withered,'...

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