What if SSA climate-shock cluster (drought + floods) dents growth and FX?
Simultaneous drought and flooding across East and Southern Africa cut hydro power and crops, hitting growth and currencies in Kenya, Ethiopia and Zambia.
how we built this number — every step
The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Simultaneous drought and flooding across East and Southern Africa cut hydro power and crops, hitting growth and currencies in Kenya, Ethiopia and Zambia. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Climate/crop supply ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.
If it happens — the markets it would move
Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.6% hist -1.91–+0.68% · other way -0.59% (n=12) |
| 2 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -4.27–+4.6% · other way -2.24% (n=11) |
| 3 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.5% hist -1.44–+0.47% · other way -0.42% (n=12) |
| 4 | Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.5% hist +0.07–+0.55% · other way -1.94% (n=12) |
| 5 | Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +0.4% hist +0.1–+0.35% · other way -0.85% (n=12) |
| 6 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% model prior · unmeasured |
| 7 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.48–+0.52% · other way +32.94% (n=12) |
| 8 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -3.26–+3.18% · other way +3.85% (n=11) |
| 9 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.34–+0.44% · other way -0.64% (n=12) |
| 10 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.4–+0.42% · other way +1.0% (n=12) |
| 11 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.3% hist -1.77–+5.59% · other way -4.5% (n=12) |
| 12 | Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.48–+0.06% · other way -0.57% (n=12) |
| 13 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.2% hist -3.12–+3.5% · other way +8.53% (n=11) |
| 14 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.44–+0.74% · other way -0.55% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 29 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSM TSM | SHORT | -2.0% · 5d -2.1% | 72% | 18 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +5.0% · 5d +8.1% | 63% | 19 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d -0.8% | 66% | 21 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 61% | 18 | 0.21 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -1.3% · 5d -0.6% | 61% | 18 | 0.21 | · |
| SOL SOL | LONG | +5.4% · 5d -3.0% ↺ fades | 62% | 8 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| XLK XLK | LONG | +0.8% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades | 61% | 18 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades | 59% | 20 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +1.6% · 5d +0.8% | 57% | 7 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades | 56% | 18 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| MRVL MRVL | LONG | +3.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades | 56% | 18 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| NVDA NVDA | SHORT | -2.0% · 5d -3.4% | 56% | 18 | 0.08 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | LONG | +0.1% · 5d +0.1% | 56% | 18 | 0.08 | · |
| SPX SPX | SHORT | -1.3% · 5d -0.9% | 52% | 29 | 0.03 | ✓ matches cascade |