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Outputs of agricultural crops like sugarcane will drop to as low as 50 per cent as the current weather system is expected to worsen in the coming months.The weather system over the Fiji Group last week provided temporary relief to parts of the country.Manager Climate Services Division, Fiji Meteorological Service, Doctor Sushil Sharma, a professional meteorologist, said the troughs of low pressure with cloud bands, associated with upper air features, in normal situations are fairly active and mobile.He said they moved across the group in an easterly direction, rapidly within a very short time, often about 24hours.“We are presently monitoring the situation.“No expected weather systems from now to October 2010 will be large or intense enough to alleviate the dry conditions.“Meteorologically, it’s not possible to get that type of cumulative rain any time soon, within the next 2 to 3 months, from any weather systems or combinations of weather systems, given our present indices of
the regional and global weather and climate system.”When asked whether the current system is worse than the drought in 1998 which was considered the worse to have hit the country, Dr Sharma said, “we’re working on the issues of drought and it has to be well thought out due to our need to discuss things with DISMAC.
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