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In Himachal Pradesh, the Beas is washing away highways, heavy vehicles, residences, hotels and bridges like Lego toys. Nearly 700 roads are blocked in Himachal and 100 in Uttarakhand due to mud- and landslides. At least 34 lives have been lost in the last three days. Such apocalyptic scenes are not new.
Falls of rain. it's already raining very heavily on those totals will amount to about 100—300 mm, but 600 over mountains. quite quickly as we had through tuesday into wednesday. typhoon hinnamnor will then bring its winds into russia's far east. we've already seen fairly widespread disruption. schools have closed ahead of the arrival of this typhoon. a number of flights have been cancelled. but these damaging winds could cause problems, the rain likely to trigger flooding across inland sites. the monsoon winds are going to strengthen across south east asia, which means we could see some prod...
Rains bring relief, but leave Chattogram roads waterlogged
Two cities in pakistan set a new record for the highest temperature in the northern hemisphere for that date friday. 47 degrees celsius, or 116.6 degrees fahrenheit. at the same time, the country's minister of climate change warns of possible glacial floods in the area due to the heat wave. the minister also says this will be the first time in decades that pakistan is experiencing a springless year. officials say temperatures are likely to keep rising over the weekend. india is also sweating through hotter than normal weather. temperatures during the prolonged heat wave have been above avera...
In the number of cyclones. not only that, it's notjust a frequency of these kinds of extreme weather events, but also their intensity and duration also have increased. and they are spread over a larger region in the recent decades. this is particularly because of global warming. we have attacked it up to global warming because if we look at the geography of india, it is particular. surrounded on all three sides by warm indian ocean waters, and this is warming further because more than 90% of the additional heat from global warming goes into the oceans, and these monsoon winds which blow from t...