Author Topic: World Natural Disaster & Weather Reports. (Read 121041 times)

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #20 on:** May 25, 2015, 09:23:00 AM »

Having a bad time in USA

Torrential rain soaks Oklahoma, forces evacuations | Video | Reuters.com

tried Tiny but it played up

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2015, 11:05:10 PM »

Feel so sorry for them

Rain deluge brings floods to Texas and Oklahoma - BBC News

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2015, 11:19:12 PM »

Terrible news from India

More than 430 dead in India heatwave - Telegraph

JennyLeez · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2015, 12:08:08 PM »

More than 500 people are believed to have died in a heatwave in India as temperatures approach 50C (122F) in parts of the country.

High of 47.7C recorded in northern city of Allahabad, with most recorded deaths due to heatstroke and dehydration in rural areas in south. In Delhi, the capital, a high of 45.2C (110.3F) was recorded.

Most of the recorded deaths, primarily from heatstroke and extreme dehydration, have been in rural areas in the south, where roads and markets are now deserted in many cities and towns.

The forecast is for a continuing “heatwave to severe heatwave” for the rest of the month.
Officials in the Indian Meteorological Department say it will "take some time" for the heat wave to subside.
Meteorological officials said the heat wave was due to a lack of rain - parts of Maharashtra, according to reports, were reporting a water crisis.

JennyLeez · « **Reply #24 on:** May 27, 2015, 03:50:57 PM »

Texas flooding: at least four dead and 12 missing in latest downpours.

At least four people have died and a dozen more are missing after severe storms flooded roads, damaged buildings and caused bayous to burst their banks in Texas on Monday night.
After a weekend of devastating flooding in parts of central Texas and Oklahoma, sections of the US’s fourth-biggest city resembled scenes from a disaster movie on Tuesday morning with freeways swamped and scores of cars submerged or piled up against walls as drivers and pedestrians sought shelter on higher ground.

Flood waters in many areas receded during a dry and sunny morning but the afternoon brought dark clouds and scattered showers and the forecast is for more storms later this week.

The storms also produced strong winds and hail in what was some of the worst weather to hit the region since Hurricane Ike in 2008. Data from the Harris County Flood Warning System, which covers Houston, showed rainfall in excess of 10in in some areas, most of which fell in the space of a couple hours on Monday night as storms moved east from central Texas.

That part of the state had already been severely affected over the weekend by flash floods, which Texas governor Greg Abbott described as having “relentless, tsunami-type power”.

Source: the guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/26/texas-storms-aftermath-flooding-power-outages

Freeways in Houston were under up to 8in of water on Tuesday morning after a night of unrelenting rain. Authorities declared a flash flood emergency. Texas governor Greg Abbott on Monday likened the ferocity of the flash flooding to a tsunami, and authorities said a dam had given way in a state park.
Photos below.

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #25 on:** May 28, 2015, 08:18:57 PM »

Lake Travis, Austin's main reservoir, rises astonishing 22 feet in 1 week

This is shocking to imagine and terrifying

Lake Travis, Austin's main reservoir, rises astonishing 22 feet in 1 week

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #26 on:** May 29, 2015, 06:38:32 AM »

Something different

Time-lapse shows this winter's massive snowfall in Corner Brook - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #27 on:** May 30, 2015, 01:42:06 AM »

This is still on going pore sods

No relief from India heatwave as death toll reaches 20-year high | World news | The Guardian

JennyLeez · « **Reply #28 on:** May 30, 2015, 03:07:55 PM »

Below is an example of what the heat wave is doing to their roads.

I would hate to think what would happen here at 50°C. The tar comes through at 30°C as it is up this way with the poorly tar sealed roads.

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #29 on:** May 30, 2015, 10:11:24 PM »

Back to USA

Texas floods: US president Obama signs disaster declaration, allowing federal emergency relief - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #30 on:** June 02, 2015, 08:38:01 PM »

Pore souls

China ferry disaster: Hundreds feared dead after 'tornado' sinks passenger boat - Mirror Online

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #31 on:** June 03, 2015, 12:23:15 AM »

Records still rise really feel so sorry for them

India heatwave: death toll passes 2,500 as victim families fight for compensation - Telegraph

JennyLeez · « **Reply #32 on:** June 04, 2015, 10:13:17 AM »

420,000 Affected as Rainstorms Batter Southwest China.
4th June 2015

GUIYANG -- State media reported that torrential rains have been lashing Guizhou province since Tuesday noon, leaving one person dead, another missing and over 410,000 affected.

The provincial civil affairs department said the rainstorms hit more than 20 counties and cities, with about 20,000 people prompted to evacuate. In addition, 352 houses collapsed and over 1,500 were damaged. So far, the rains have inflicted an economic loss amounting to 163 million yuan.

A section of a railway line connecting Chongqing municipality and Guiyang was also destroyed, disrupting the operations of 20 passenger trains on Wednesday. Railway patrols spotted an embankment cave-in stretching 30 meters between two the stations in Guizhou.

Meanwhile, the provincial meteorological center expects the heavy rains to continue in the next two days. The National Meteorological Center issued an alert for rainstorms in the provinces of Anhui, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang as well as Shanghai from Tuesday evening till Thursday.

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #33 on:** June 05, 2015, 01:01:08 AM »

Now in Ghana

Flooding led to Ghana fuel blast

Flooding led to Ghana fuel blast - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

JennyLeez · « **Reply #34 on:** June 07, 2015, 06:54:25 PM »

Hurricane Blanca Weakens On Way to Cabo San Lucas

After strengthening earlier in the day, Hurricane Blanca weakened slightly Saturday as it continued to push north through the Pacific Ocean towards Baja California Sur and the southern portion of Baja California, forecasters said.

Maximum sustained winds weakened from 130 mph — making it a Category 4 hurricane — to 120 mph and the storm was expected to weaken further, the National Hurricane Center said in a statement.

The storm's eye passed east of Socorro Island Saturday afternoon and was 225 miles south of Cabo San Lucas as of 11 p.m. ET, the Hurricane Center said, and it was moving northwest toward the popular resort destination at 10 mph. Socorro Island recorded sustained winds of 46 mph and gusts of up to 71 mph as the hurricane passed.

After strengthening earlier in the day, Hurricane Blanca weakened slightly Saturday as it continued to push north through the Pacific Ocean towards Baja California Sur and the southern portion of Baja California, forecasters said.

Maximum sustained winds weakened from 130 mph — making it a Category 4 hurricane — to 120 mph and the storm was expected to weaken further, the National Hurricane Center said in a statement.

The storm's eye passed east of Socorro Island Saturday afternoon and was 225 miles south of Cabo San Lucas as of 11 p.m. ET, the Hurricane Center said, and it was moving northwest toward the popular resort destination at 10 mph. Socorro Island recorded sustained winds of 46 mph and gusts of up to 71 mph as the hurricane passed.

Blanca is expected weaken to a tropical storm by the time its outer bands start hitting the peninsula Sunday night, but could still dump 6 to 10 inches of rain on much of the region, and some areas could get 15 inches, raising the fear of flash flooding and mudslides, the Hurricane Center said.

A hurricane watch was in place Saturday for Cabo San Lucas, which is still recovering from Category 3 Hurricane Odile which ravaged the area in September and was the strongest storm there in 25 years.

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #35 on:** June 08, 2015, 07:53:47 AM »

From the heat now come the rain

Monsoon in India: Rain deficit to hit several crops

Monsoon in India: Rain deficit to hit several crops | The Financial Express

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #36 on:** June 10, 2015, 05:01:34 AM »

10 die in China floods

10 die in China floods

JennyLeez · « **Reply #37 on:** June 13, 2015, 10:44:37 AM »

Californians are living through a slow-motion natural disaster, a four-year drought that is combining with record heat to challenge the state in unprecedented ways.

California’s four-year drought is the worst in the state’s history and wide-ranging restrictions on water use came into effect at the start of June. In the longer run Californians will need to find new ways of managing their water supply.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued a following statement yesterday after President Barack Obama announced new actions and investments to support workers, farmers and rural communities suffering from drought and to combat wildfires, including $18 million for the State of California to provide jobs for workers dislocated by the drought.

Drought-stricken California on Friday ordered the largest cuts on record to farmers holding some of the state's strongest water rights.
State water officials told more than a hundred senior rights holders in California's Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds to stop pumping from those waterways.

California is showing what climate change looks like, drier and hotter than anything modern humans have experienced. The four-year drought is the worst in the instrument record, and by tree-ring and other measurements, the worst in 1,200 years.

Under the drought’s relentless force, the conflict among the state’s three primary water users — farms, cities and nature — is intensifying. Something has to give, and it is.

Species are going extinct. Farmers are draining aquifers to stay in business. Thousands of people have lost their water sources — in Tulare County alone, officials report, 1,244 households’ wells had run dry by mid-May.

Centuries-long mega-droughts of the Middle Ages are a preview of what’s to come, scientists say, giving pause to vague sureties that California will figure out a way, as it always has.

Attached: Reservoir Millerton Lake near San Joaquin River, California.

JennyLeez · « **Reply #38 on:** June 16, 2015, 12:50:32 AM »

Why did Tbilisi flood?
The flooding of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi was unexpected, sudden and made worldwide news, not just because it released a zoo full of wild animals into the city. Where though, could such an inundation come from?

The River Mtkvari is Tbilisi's main water artery and it divides the city, but it was not that river that flooded. The River Vere, normally a small western tributary to the Mtkvari, suddenly had to cope with a major fall of rain, and couldn't.

Saturday afternoon was not extraordinary: the city reached 29C in a steady southeasterly breeze. Clouds built, but they didn't look threatening. Unfortunately out to the west, they were.

With cloud bases at about 1,500 metres above the ground, one particular thunderstorm kept growing upwards until its top reached 11,000 metres. This was enough to produce vast amounts of rain, all falling over one small area.

This fed the River Vere which burst its banks, flooding the road, sweeping away cars and at least one small house, and flooding many other homes, not to mention smashing open the zoo.

Tbilisi is surrounded by hills and Georgia is mountainous. Thunder in the mountains is often a warning of flash flooding in the valleys.

There are more big thunderstorms brewing in eastern Turkey and drifting into Georgia during Monday. Thankfully it looks as though they will stay well to the west of Tbilisi.

http://www.aljazeera.com

Zoo Animals on the Loose After Deadly Flooding Hits Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgia mobilized its special forces on Sunday and warned residents in the capital not to leave their homes after lions, tigers and bears — among other animals — escaped during floods that have claimed at least 12 human lives.
A spokeswoman for the zoo told NBC News that many of the animals were killed in the flooding or by special forces, but it was not known how many remained at large.

Photos/Videos here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lions-tigers-loose-tbilisi-georgia-after-flooding-destroys-zoo-enclosures-n375066

Martin4Jay · « **Reply #39 on:** June 17, 2015, 11:41:52 PM »

Worst drought in a century hits North Korea

Worst drought in a century hits North Korea - ITV News

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