It seems that La Nina not only caused heavy rain in Singapore, but also manifested itself as snowstorms in China.
This article was taken from Straits Times on 5 Feb 2008, titled “Snowstorms ‘not due to climate change’".
According to this article, the wild weather in China was due to an unusually strong cold front moving in from north-west China and the La Nina effect. This resulted in three weeks of blizzards and the harsh winter conditions in the supposedly warmer regions of China. It destroyed crops, disrupted water supplies and paralysed transportation in affected regions. The snowstorms also killed at 60 people and caused an economic loss of about 53.8 billion yuan! Apparently, the effects of La Nina are so deadly.
However, when it comes to drought, the La Nina pattern has actually helped end years of serious drought in Australia.
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It seems that La Nina not only caused heavy rain in Singapore, but also manifested itself as snowstorms in China.