Tbere is also a huge supercell forming over Spain. It's orgins begin in South Amrerica at the equator extending across the Atlantic and organizing into a rotation system over the Mediterrainian.
Rain to spoil record Easter exodus
But Met Office forecasters are predicting downpours in top resorts across the Mediterranean this week.
Ironically, some of the best weather will be in Britain with temperatures of up to 18°C (64°F).
Met Office forecaster Andrew Sibley said: 'It will be around 16C (61F) in Britain today and as high as 18°C in London.
'For most of the rest of the week, it will be about 14 or 15°C. There will be sunny spells and it will feel pleasant at times.'
He said the situation in the Mediterranean this week would be one of heavy showers with temperatures on the cool side – especially compared with what people would expect at this time of year.
He added: 'There will be long spells of rain in the South of France, the east coast of Italy, southern Spain, Portugal, Corsica and Sardinia. On Thursday the cool air will get down towards Turkey.'
THERE COULD BE A CHANCE IT MIGHT BE MORE THAN THIS AS WELL. POSSIBLY TORNADIC WEATHER NOT EXPECTED NORMALLY.
Cameroon might be getting some relief from their drought, however, flooding can be as bad if not worse sometimes.
Gloomy cocoa forecast as bad weather hits supply
Similarly pessimistic forecasts have been noted elsewhere with investment bank Fortis forced to increase its 2006/07 cocoa deficit figure from 131,000 tonnes to 215,000 last month due to unfavourable weather in West Africa.
Unseasonably dry weather in the area has raised fears that crops will be damaged and production from the major growing region will fall.
With supplies dipping and factors such as weather, disease and civil unrest having an increasing impact on the production chain, many companies and government bodies are becoming involved in helping cocoa farmers at grass roots levels.
This week, the Netherlands donated 655 million CFA francs to Cameroon cocoa farmers to improve the co-operative structures throughout the farming communities and improve their marketing position.
And members of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) teamed up recently to extend their five-year plan to help 150,000 cocoa farming families in Ghana through programmes related to education, health and labour conditions.
The ICCO bulletin examines factors affecting the industry and comments on crop and demand prospects for leading countries as well as giving a review of statistics on price, exports, imports and consumption
GET OUT THE RAIN BARRELS IN NIGERIA !
Nigeria: 'Water Scarcity Remains an Issue'
March 27, 2007
Posted to the web March 28, 2007
Achim Steiner
Lagos
Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made phenomenon. There is enough freshwater on the planet for six billion people but it is shared unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed.
The reality of climate change compels the world to pay even greater attention to water scarcity given the predicted variability and more extreme weather events likely over the coming years and decades.
The text book planning of a dam on the basis of a one in 100 flow is becoming a hydrological lottery of receding certainty.
Glaciers, water stores and water sources for millions of people alongside wildlife and economically productive ecosystems, are melting three times faster than in the 1980s and could disappear in the decades to come.
A Brazilian study indicates that temperatures in the Amazon could rise as high as 8 degrees C dramatically altering the flows of one of the world's most important freshwater systems. So if we want to avoid "Water Scarcity" as the permanent theme for the 21st century, a big part of the solution is cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 60 to 80 per cent.
Fortunately, World Water Day 2007 comes in a year of unprecedented momentum on climate change both scientifically and politically. Let us hope that the tide of political opinion is genuinely changing in favour of a meaningful, fair and equitable emissions-reduction regime for when the Kyoto Protocol treaty expires in five short-years time.
