Category: Weather & Climate
By Amanoola Khayrattee -December 12, 2018 Climate change issues Nobody enjoys having to pump out water from their dwellings, scrape out and shovel debris from their premises, and kill themselves trying …
How Effective is our State of Preparedness? It’s the same old tune during every cyclone or torrential rain period, the same grumbling about dwellings and premises inundated, cars wrecked, …
This week started with an unstable weather here and in the region. We had a thunderstorm on Monday night which continued until the early hours of Tuesday. On Wednesday Mauritiuswitnessed …
In the last post in my series relating to the recent flood that hit Mauritius I referred to the event as a wake-up call. I highlighted a number of …
Let’s recapitulate before going further. In the first post we looked into the event that hit the country. Then we probed into the existing torrential rain warning system after …
So far we have looked into the chronology of events and the adequacy or inadequacy of the system in place. You can already sense the complexity of the issue …
From the previous post you should have some idea on the sequence of events that led to various (misleading so to say) interpretation of matters. Today I’ll go into …
Four dead including one school child of 13 in the unprecedented flood that hit the country on Wednesday last. The child was returning home after early school dismissal due …
Significant weather changes have been occurring since I came here. The first week and the first day I took over my duty there was a cyclone threat; this week …
One thing life always teaches us: people are never satisfied with whatever decision you take, still less when it is not in their favor. Tell them there’s a cyclone …