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© Bomberos DipuAlc/ N332/ Mastral projectAlicante province was inundated this morning
This morning, the province of Valencia and much of the province of Alicante were placed on a red, severe threat to life, level of advisory ahead of treacherous weather conditions arriving to Spain's east coast.
This red level warning was deescalated after 3pm on Monday afternoon, with an orange, medium risk to life, advisory enforced in its place.
Due to heavy rain and floods, many areas were still inundated including roads to the city's airport, local daily newspaper Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) quoted the municipal People's Committee as reporting.
Flash floods and landslides also destroyed 12 houses, injured several people and triggered a breach of a reservoir. According to local online newspaper VnExpress, the municipal authorities told some 90,000 students to stay home from school on Monday.
Saudi Arabia hit by unprecedented rains and floods
The government has issued warning as situation is expected to get worse.
Cyclone Gaja claims lives of 4 workers
Rescue operation has been delayed as uprooted trees trees fell on the road. The officials were making efforts to recover the bodies.
According to officials, the Gaja cyclone has created a lot of damage in Dindigul district and Kodaikanal was also badly hit.
© Carlos González-SilvaA small, temporary lagoon in the Atacama Desert caused by unprecedented rains.
Life on Earth cannot exist without water, but for microbes highly adapted to arid conditions, the sudden introduction of excess water can be utterly devastating. Such is the conclusion of a new paper published this week in Scientific Reports.
Fascinatingly, these findings, while applicable to life on Earth, may also apply to ancient Mars - a planet possibly capable of fostering microbial life during its ancient past, but at the same time susceptible to catastrophic flooding.
Located in northern Chile, the 105,000-square-kilometer Atacama Desert is one of the oldest and driest deserts on Earth, and it's been this way for 150 million years. This desert features a hyper-arid core, with climate models predicting major rainfall events at a paltry rate of once per century. That said, no significant rainfall had been recorded in this region for the past 500 years.
But things are changing in Atacama Desert - and not necessarily for the better.
© Government of PeruFloods in San Martin, Peru, November 2018.
San Martín
Several small rivers have broken their banks in San Martín Region and authorities have warned that the Huallaga river is rising and currently at yellow (second) level alert.
Andina news agency reports that one person died in Nuevo Progreso district, Tocache Province, when the Pacota river broke its banks on 13 November.
© AFPIt might be fun for some, but Kuwait is reeling from torrential rains.
More than 95 mm (3.80 inches) of rain inundated Kuwait City's International Airport Wednesday into Thursday.
That is just shy of the 117.8 mm (4.64 inches) that the airport has averaged annually in recent years, according to the Kuwait Meteorological Department. Typically, 18.8 mm (0.74 of an inch) is an average rainfall for all of November.
Runoff from the heavy rain flooded roads and damaged some buildings, according to Aljazeera. Schools and public offices were closed on Wednesday and Thursday. Air traffic was suspended at the international airport.
Comment: Details of the 2 earlier flooding episodes: National Guard called in to help as rains wreak havoc across Kuwait
Streets of Kuwait city heavily flooded
The heavy rain began on 09 November, 2018. According to WMO figures, Sauce Viejo city in the province of Santa Fe recorded 196mm of rain in 24 hours to 12 November. Reconquista, also in Santa Fe, recorded 169 mm of rain in 24 hours the following day.
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) in Argentina said that this November has already been one of the wettest on record.
According to national news agency Télam, 1,561 people have been evacuated in La Matanza, a district (partido) in Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province. In addition, 100 people were evacuated in Arrecifes, 37 in Quilmes, 10 in Marcos Paz, 80 in Cañuelas, 8 in Saladillo, 14 in Trenque Lauquen.
Comment: To keep track of the ever increasing number of severe and frequently record-breaking flooding episodes (including associated landslides) across the planet, please visit our pages dedicated to this topic here.
© Xinhua/NikkuA motorist drives through the flooded streets, due to the heavy rainfall in Doha, capital of Qatar, Nov. 11, 2018.
Some areas of Qatar received almost half-a-year's worth of rainfall in just a few hours as thunderstorms struck, said the Qatar Meteorology Department (QMD).
It said a northwestern part of the country received almost 31 mm (more than an inch) of rainfall, compared to the emirate's annual rainfall of 77 mm.
Comment: For details of the first event in October, see: Desert state Qatar drenched by floods as almost a year's rain falls in ONE day.
Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.