La Nina determined the
winter in 1999-2000, which is a
special incident of weather. The weather became hot and dry. The firestorm
began in February in New-Mexico, after that it expected from Mexico t Canada
There were lots of dry storms with lots of lightning’s, therefore there were
lots of forest-fires. More than 30 thousand firemen worked against the fire;
finally the fire was brought under control in November.
People lit fire in the forests in Kuala Lumpur in 1997. They wanted to get some land for agriculture. They tried t control the fire, but it wasn’t successful. The Monsoon was late in consequence of El Nino. There was big disaster; 75 million people lost their homes and 4000 people died. Lots of animals died in the disaster (for example: plants, orang-utans).
The weather became very hot (40°) in the scrubs of Australia in 1983. There were enormous fires and very strong wind (160km/h). The fire spread very quickly therefore lots of people died in the disaster.