Europe and parts of north and south America are in the middle of a vicious heatwave — but in the Pacific, puffer jackets are becoming the norm as Tonga shivered through its second-coldest temperature on record.
The record cold day Tonga experience in 1994 was during an El Niño that lasted until the next year.
"There was a lack of food in that area and there were some real sociological problems and issues for the people at that time," she said.The conditions in Tonga are being felt across the region, with puffer jackets and beanies being seen in Fiji and colder temperatures recorded in Samoa. But he said, they were still "on the hunt" to gain accurate temperatures across Samoa and its more remote areas.
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