According to the Australian National Weather Service detected the latest sea surface temperature index, it has now appeared in 1997 - the same trend in 1998 when a strong El Nino, El Nino means the Pacific (601,099 shares) region is continuing to strengthen.

Australia's National Meteorological Bureau said average of all five NINO index exceeds the threshold of 1 degree, this is the first time since 1997--98 years of strong El Niño first appeared the same trend. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records Agency, then to have the strongest El Nino on record.

Wall Street knowledge reported this month, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Australian National Weather Service has announced that El Nino appears. This year is the first time since the 2010 El Nino event. This weather phenomenon will hurt crops such as rice and palm oil crops, and increased hurricanes in the southern United States.

Early April, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA) in its official website that the long-expected El Nino phenomenon will eventually will come in this year. According NOOA explanation, El Niño (El Ni? O Spanish word for Christ Child), mainly referring to the strong mutual action between oceans and climate, tropical sea temperatures leading to the eastern and central Pacific Ocean is abnormally sustained warming.

El Nino weather patterns to change the world

Asia: The weather was unusually hot. Americas: climate is more humid.

West Africa: abnormal drought. Australia: rainfall plummeted.

Prices of agricultural products

Tuesday Chikahisa Sumi IMF officials in Manila said the El Nino phenomenon may lead to Filipino food prices surged, the government must quickly purchase food imports to solve the supply problem.

"If this El Nino strength approaching 1997 - 1998 levels, then farming industry must prepare for the worst" Franki Anthony Dass, vice president of Sime Darby Bhd, said the company responsible for planting, "continued drought will lead to months of harvest affected. "

US Department of Agriculture data show that in 1997--98 years, Indonesia's palm oil production fell 7.1%, Malaysia 5.5% decline. Production of these two countries accounted for 86% of the world's total supply of

According to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia data, in the worst case, Australia's wheat production plummeted by 15%. Since 1970, El Nino will make local wheat production was lower than average. In addition, the International Cocoa Organization believes, based on past experience, El Niño global cocoa production reduced by 2.4%. Among them, the cocoa production in Ecuador average drop of 6%, cocoa production in Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana in Africa fell 2.4%, respectively, 2% and 1.7%.

Fluctuations in commodity prices or

According to the National Meteorological Agency observation, never visited the El Nino in 2014. But last June the hot rainy season led to India disorder, often after a day of heavy rain ushered in a few days of drought, poor crop yields in India. Agricultural products (000061 shares) production fell hit Indian farmers' income decreased demand for gold farmers, many also sell their gold. India accounts for 60 percent of farmers buy gold in India's total purchases of gold, the group sold a large inner week spot gold prices plunged 3%.