A string of weather events has soaked southern Brazil since June 2023.

This image pair, taken by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on #Landsat 8, highlights the recent flooding of agricultural fields along the Jacuí River near the town Agudo in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Conversely, northern parts of the country have been experiencing droughts and wildfires. According to Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology, the increase in rainfall events in the south and dry weather in the north are mainly caused by El Niño.

P.S. El Niño is when ocean temperatures along the equatorial Pacific are warmer than normal and the winds that travel from east to west (trade winds) are weaker. This causes changes in global weather patterns.

Video Description:
Two images flip back and forth to show the land before and after flooding occurred. In the before image, there are patches of green and brown. A wavy pattern of lighter brown patches starts at the top left and travels down to the middle of the image at the bottom. This is the land around the Jacuí River. The after image is the same as the before, except now that wavy pattern is a deeper, single colored brown as the land has flooded.

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