Typhoon Yagi, Monsoons, and the Rising Challenge amid Our Changing Climate

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Last year, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) issued a warning saying El Nino had developed in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, setting the stage for a likely surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate patterns. Countries in the region of Southeast Asia including Thailand were affected by El Nino as a result, but the trend then swiftly switched to the opposite weather extreme in the middle of this year; La Nina.

The situation has become complicated by the occurrence of unusually behaving storms like tropical storm Yagi, which spinned itself into a Typhoon and Super Typhoon early this month, severely affecting countries along its path, from the Philippines to southern China, northern Vietnam, northern Laos and Thailand, as well as the central Myanmar where it dissipated.
It remains unclear how such powerful storms interact with the seasonal climate system of tropical Monsoons and the changing climate or climate change.

All these disruptive climate patterns and systems now are posing a new challenge to the region, which is home to millions of residents susceptible to high climate risks. It should be the time for people to learn more about their occurrences and interactions so that they can better understand the situation and equip themselves better to prevent and mitigate climate-related risks.

The critical questions are to what extent can we learn about their changing circumstances and interactions, and to what extent can we keep up with them and how?

The Dialogue Forum would cordially like to invite you to take this opportunity to explore this challenge together at Dialogue Forum 1 l Year 5: Typhoon Yagi, Monsoons, and the Rising Challenge amid Our Changing Climate on September 25, 10 am-12.30 pm at SEA-Junction, BACC’s building (4th Floor).