Climate graphic of the week: Blackouts and water rationing as South American drought worsens

Bogotá limits water use and Quito schedules daily power cuts to cope with historically low rainfall

Historic droughts are rocking large parts of South America as energy grids powered by hydroelectric dams struggle to meet demand, and forest fires continue to spread in the stricken Amazon region. The effects of global warming on the continent are intensifying extreme weather events, even as almost 200 countries gather over a fortnight for the UN COP16 biodiversity summit in the tropical city of Cali, Colombia.

Cristian Paliz Acosta, a forecaster at INAMHI, the Ecuador government’s meteorological agency, attributed the unusually dry conditions to an intensification of the Walker circulation over the tropical Pacific, in which warm, moist air rises in the west while cold, dry air descends in the east.

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