SciDevNet: Rwanda's weather service is now better able to forecast floods and other natural disasters after scientists bridged climate-data gaps left by the 1994 genocide.
The collection of national rainfall and temperature records lapsed for after the genocide, and the absence of reliable records had hampered the Rwanda Meteorology Agency's ability to forecast threats such as torrential rain or flooding that damaged homes and crops, and caused fatalities.
But researchers have now combined Rwandan weather...