Matthew Bunce of Reuters reports that Mike Davy, Hadley Centre for World Climate Prediction of the Britain's Meteorological Office predicts that the cocoa and coffee crops of Western Africa and the Gulf of Guinea region are not at risk of ENSO damage [but see 15 JANUARY 1998. AFRICA: CLIMATE (RAINFALL PREDICTIONS) for another perspective], disagreeing with WMO forecasts. Local weather is more likely influenced by Atlantic Ocean temperatures than by ENSO effects, according to Davy.