Recently, China's largest desert, the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, experienced flooding, which sparked widespread discussions on social media.
A video surfaced online shows vehicles running on a waterlogged road through the Taklimakan Desert and a significant accumulation of water on both side of the highway.
Located in the center of the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang, the desert is surrounded by the Tianshan, Kunlun and Altun Mountains. It has an annual average precipitation of no more than 100 millimeters but an evaporation amount up to 3,000 millimeter..
But experts say it is not uncommon to see flooding in the desert.
Farmers in the Wallingford and North Branford area were devastated by hail damage from Monday's storms, during the peak of the growing season as so many were starting or preparing to harvest.
At Cecarellis Harrison Hill Farm, workers were starting to process the last of this year's harvest. A small amount of tomatoes compared to their usual bounty.
"We got over here and this is what I saw," said William DellaCamera, owner of the farm as he toured us around acres and acres of devastated tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and corn.
The vast majority was hit hard by hail rolling through his region. He got stuck at the farm, indoors, as the storms passed overhead.
"The sun came out, a rainbow came out, there is no gold at the end of that rainbow, I can assure you of that," he said.
The National Weather Service confirmed multiple reports of the waterspout, which formed over Ellis Pond in Roxbury, which is also known as Roxbury Pond.
Ana Tortell Loving Malta Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:18 UTC
A waterspout was spotted over the sea in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq earlier this morning.
Footage sent to Lovin Malta shows the natural phenomenon appearing before the horizon. This comes as the island braces itself for a possible thunderstorm later today.
Waterspouts fall into two categories: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts.
Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from land to water. They have the same characteristics as a land tornado. They are associated with severe thunderstorms, and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and frequent dangerous lightning.
One person has died in a lightning strike in Salyan district. The deceased has been identified as Dal Bahadur Karki, 56, a resident of Laxmipur Satkhola, Kalimati Rural Municipality-1.
Karki was struck by lightning when he went to a shed near his house on Monday evening. He was seriously injured and rushed to the District Hospital Salyan for treatment. Unfortunately, the doctor declared him dead.
Karki was also the principal of the Kali Devi Secondary School.
A unique rainfall event is about to unfold across the Sahara desert, otherwise known as the driest place on Earth. The amount of rainfall might not seem large by normal standards, but a large part of the Sahara will get well over 500% of normal monthly rainfall in August and September.
It's not very often that the Sahara desert experiences these rainfall events. They are very rare, less than once per decade on average, but they are usually a sign that something is perhaps changing in the Earth's weather system, indicating an unusual state of the Atmosphere.
The driest place on Earth
Sahara is called the driest place on Earth because it receives little to no yearly precipitation. It is the world's largest and hottest desert, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. It covers over 9.2 million square kilometers (3.6 million square miles).
Emily Mae Czachor CBS News Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:35 UTC
Killer whale.
Orcas slammed into a sailboat off the coast of northwestern Spain on Sunday, damaging its rudder and prompting a complicated rescue operation that left one crew member seriously injured, officials said, marking the latest incident of the predators attacking a vessel in the region.
It wasn't known exactly how many orcas — also known as killer whales — were involved in the attack near O Roncudo along the rocky cliffs of the Spanish province of Galicia. Spain's maritime rescue service said two people on board the boat, called the Amidala, sent out a mayday at around 4 p.m. GMT to the dispatch center in Cape Finisterre, an area also marked by rocky shores and, at the time, rough seas.
The man and woman who crewed the Amidala haven't been identified by name, but the rescue service described them as Belgian nationals. Their boat sailed under the Finnish flag.
Comment: Other cetaceans also seem to becoming quite aggressive of late, see:
Heavy rain overnight Monday triggered partial flooding in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi and its surrounding areas, local authorities said.
Sochi Mayor Andrey Proshunin said the Khostinsky district, located on the foothills of the western Caucasus mountains, received around 12.5 centimeters (4.9 inches) of rain between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
"After midnight, the water level in the Khosta River reached dangerous levels, and the basement of a hospital was flooded," the mayor said, referring to one of the rivers that flows through the district.
Proshunin said emergency responders pumped water overnight to clear the worst-hit areas.
The death toll in Nigeria due to devastating floods since Aug. 16 has risen to 49, with at least 470 people injured, the country's emergency management agency said Monday.
A flood dashboard by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) updated on Monday showed that the northern states of Jigawa, Adamawa and Taraba were hit hard by the flood after days of intense rainfall.
A total of 43,519 people have been displaced by the flood, according to the agency.
Further details in these earlier reports for the month:
Floods have wreaked havoc across 11 districts in Bangladesh affecting over 4.8 million people, and resulting in 15 deaths, according to the language daily of the country Prothom Alo.
The disaster management and relief ministry was quoted as saying by the language daily that Cumilla and Chattogram districts saw four deaths each, three died in Cox's Bazar, and one each in Feni, Noakhali, Brahmanbaria, and Lakshmipur districts.
The floods, which began on August 20, has impacted Feni, Cumilla, Khagrachhari, Noakhali, Chattogram, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Sylhet, Lakshmipur, and Cox's Bazar districts.
Road and rail communications between Dhaka and Chattogram have been halted as various sections of the railway lines and highways remain submerged.
The death toll in the devastating flood has risen to 27 as the deaths of four more people in Cumilla were reported Tuesday.
Among the deaths, 10 were in Cumilla, five each in Chattogram and Noakhali, one each in Feni, Khagrachhari, Brahmanbaria, Lakshmipur and three were in Cox's Bazar districts. Besides, two persons are missing in Moulvibazar district.
The disaster management and relief ministry gave updates on the flood situation this afternoon.
Feni, Cumilla, Chattogram, Khagrachhari, Noakhali, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Brahmanbaria, Sylhet, Lakshmipur and Cox's Bazar districts have been affected in the ongoing flood since 20 August.
As many as 5,619,375 people have been affected by the flood in 541 unions and municipalities under 74 upazilas in 11 districts.
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
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