SpaceAI Could Be Southeast Asia’s Edge Against El Niño—if Governments Actually Use It The specter of El Niño looms over Southeast Asia, threatening devastating floods and droughts on a scale not seen since 1997 98.
Despite having access to satellites, weather observations, and sophisticated climate models, the region's governments and businesses struggle to turn predictions into timely decisions.
This pattern is all too familiar in Southeast Asia: possessing tools to predict extreme weather yet failing to act on those predictions.