Islamabad, Sep 4 (ANI): An American climatologist has said he can help revolutionise Pakistan's weather forecasting system by observing dust clouds and monsoon satellite images, with the data conjured up by these observations readily available on the Internet.
Craig Dremann, who is based in California, has been studying domestic weather patterns for almost two decades. He has been focusing on the Asian climate for the last five years.
According to The Express Tribune, Dremann says that if Pakistan's meteorological department decided to study his research, flooding and drought patterns could be predicted.
He referred to the Butterfly Effect in Chaos theory, which states that the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause a cyclone somewhere else on the planet.
"When a domesticated animal eats the grass and leaves nothing behind, the soil is exposed and gets airborne, forming a dust cloud. This can cause a drought affecting the summer monsoon moisture needed for crops," Dremann said.
He also explained how this phenomenon can affect rains, and consequently the risk of flash floods.
"The issue of the dust cloud is that if it moves aside, then Pakistan can suffer from floods, and that is what I predicted 24 hours before the recent floods in the country," Dremann added, referring to the deluge that wreaked havoc in the country, killing over 24 people in August.
Dremann's website, www.ecoseeds.com, through which he sells eco-friendly seeds, has a weather portal on it, in which he has also mapped the catastrophic floods of 2010, claiming he saw them coming.
"I believe if Pakistan's climatologists overlay the daily images of the dust clouds with those during the 2010 floods with their daily rainfall maps, they will see an exact match. Where the dust clouds were absent, the floods occurred," he explained. (ANI)
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