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© Fayez Nureldine (AFP)Heavy rains have struck Saudi Arabia this week, including in the desert capital Riyadh where schools closed on Wednesday after floods caused traffic chaos during a severe storm
Floodwaters inundated roadways in Riyadh, Mecca and the mountainous south of the mostly desert kingdom, the directorate said in a statement.
Videos posted on social media showed cars submerged in water in the southwestern city of Abha.
Heavy rains have lashed Saudi Arabia for several days and the education ministry closed schools in and around the capital Riyadh on Wednesday.
Red alert weather warning in south Saudi: this video shows Abha in Asir province experiencing severe flooding today. pic.twitter.com/Mv9Ccdd15z
— Rori Donaghy (@roridonaghy) April 14, 2016
Cars, trucks, trees, rocks, houses... Everything was swept away. Discover this extreme weather phenomenon in pictures and videos.
Flash flood warnings were issued Saturday, when 0.81 inch of rain was recorded at the National Weather Service's official measuring site at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. That handily beat Sin City's previous record for the day, which was set at 0.17 inch in 1943, said Andrew Gorelow, a meteorologist.
It now also ranks as the third-highest total amount of rain ever for a single day for the month of April.
"April is one of our driest months of the year," Gorelow said. "We only average 0.15 (inch) for the average month (total)."
Sunday also broke the day's record with 0.14 inch of rain, washing out the previous record of 0.13 inch set in 1943. Gorelow said the rain was caused by a low pressure system that had picked up a lot of moisture on the way in from Southern California.
© Malawi 24
At least ten people are feared dead and hundreds of families displaced. A number of buildings and homes were also reported to have collapsed due to the floods. Many road networks were flooded and rendered impassable.
Mzuzu
According to Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), two people suffered serious injuries when a wall of their house collapsed after heavy rain. Both victims were taken to Mzuzu Central Hospital but both later died. Hospital administrator confirmed the deaths of a ten year old and an eleven month old child.
There are also unconfirmed reports that as many as 10 people have died as a result of floods in districts of Mzuzu.
Hailstorms, floods, tornadoes and now... Flash floods.
Watch the terrifying moment flash floods engulfs a river bed in Saudi Arabia, and how the flood water swamp the bridge in seconds!
Hard to believe but reports suggest everyone is safe!
severe weather
The start of the Flash Floods yesterday in Saudi Arabia, watch flood water swamp the bridge in seconds! Hard to believe but reports suggest everyone is safe!Video by @Youssouf Ali Al Taher - map.eustorm.com Severe Weather EuropeCyclone Of RhodesSevere Weather TurkeyRomanian Severe WeatherSevere Weather - RomâniaEU Storm Map
Posted by EU Storm Map on Friday, 8 April 2016
Shocking video of scary Flash Flooding in Saudi Arabia
**New**Youssouf Ali Al Taher shares this Shocking video of scary Flash Flooding in Saudi Arabia yesterday 7.4.2016!map.eustorm.comSevere Weather EuropeEU Storm MapCyclone Of Rhodes
Posted by EU Storm Map on Friday, 8 April 2016
© NASA/JPL-CaltechEarth does not always spin on an axis running through its poles. Instead, it wobbles irregularly over time, drifting toward North America throughout most of the 20th Century (green arrow). That direction has changed drastically due to changes in water mass on Earth.
Although a desktop globe always spins smoothly around the axis running through its north and south poles, a real planet wobbles. Earth's spin axis drifts slowly around the poles; the farthest away it has wobbled since observations began is 37 feet (12 meters). These wobbles don't affect our daily life, but they must be taken into account to get accurate results from GPS, Earth-observing satellites and observatories on the ground.
In a paper published today in Science Advances, Surendra Adhikari and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, researched how the movement of water around the world contributes to Earth's rotational wobbles. Earlier studies have pinpointed many connections between processes on Earth's surface or interior and our planet's wandering ways. For example, Earth's mantle is still readjusting to the loss of ice on North America after the last ice age, and the reduced mass beneath that continent pulls the spin axis toward Canada at the rate of a few inches each year. But some motions are still puzzling.
© Saudi Arabia Weather
And when I say biblical, it's because I didn't want to use apocalyptical!
Unstable conditions started sweeping across Saudi Arabia on Monday, April 3, 2016.
And reinforced during the beginning of the week to deliver heavy downpours on Ta'if and its region.
The low is sweeping from North to South and has created biblical hailstorms in the central part of the country on April 6, 2016.
© TwitterA taxi washed away by floodwaters smashes into a four-wheel-drive during heavy rains in Oman on Friday.
Three other Omanis were rescued in Wadi Bani Karoos in the Dhank province according to the Public Authority for Civil Defense and Ambulance (PACDA).
Heavy rain has been lashing northern parts of the country due to a deep depression which is expected to last two more days.
The rain forced the cancellation of the Red Bull F1 Showrun, where Scottish driver David Coultard was expected to make an appearance in Mutrah Corniche on Friday afternoon.
The race lasted for less than two minutes instead of the planned two-hour event. Hundreds of racing fans had gathered along the sea road in Mutrah to watch the race.
#eustorm 611,OM 17/30 - Youssouf Ali Al Taher Major #flooding in Oman right now!!! - https://t.co/TxmmvIQsYv pic.twitter.com/nHXduyv4mp
— #eustorm (@EUStormMap) April 8, 2016
© TwitterRain in Oman.
© Municipalidad de La PazFloods in La Paz, Entre Rios, Argentina, April 2016.
Argentina
Thousands have been affected by heavy rain and flooding in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Santa Fe.
Heavy rain has also affected parts of the province of Formosa where thousands are yet to return to their homes since the Paraguay River overflowed in December 2015.
