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SOTT Focus: Floods Everywhere: Europe Battered By Sheets Of Rain, Hail and Thunderstorms

Bahar Azizi
Sott.net
Wed, 30 May 2018 12:49 UTC
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© Facebook/Jeannette Quadvlieg-van DamMuddy waters enter a house in the Dutch province of Limburg
The Dutch southern province of Limburg was hit by torrential rains and hail on Tuesday May 22nd. Streets, basements, and highways were flooded as a result. A couple of days ago, torrential rains hit the region for a second time, this time causing mud flows.

The deluge of mud hit primarily in the Dutch villages of Berg and Terblijt. Muddy waters reached some of the houses, causing damage. Other villages near the Dutch city of Maastricht, as well as the villages Bemelen and Cadier en Keer also reported serious flooding. According to the Dutch national weather forecasting service, between 20 and 44 mm of rain fell in a very short period of time.

The events in Holland were just one small example of widespread flooding that hit many areas of Europe. Over the past week, areas of Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy were all inundated as a result of intense localized downpours.
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Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall kills 32 in Ethiopia - Update


FOX News
Sun, 27 May 2018 17:07 UTC
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Ethiopia's state-affiliated broadcaster reports that a landslide triggered by heavy rains has killed 23 people in the country's Oromia region.

Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported that the landslide happened Saturday evening after hours of heavy rains in the area. The report said 16 of the fatalities were women. It said six others were injured and taken to health centers after sustaining heavy bodily injuries.

Ethiopia is receiving heavy seasonal rains which sometimes cause severe landslides in some parts of the country.

Close to 50 people died in a similar landslide in May 2016 after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides.


Source: AP

Comment: UPDATE: 28th May from Punch:
Landslides caused by heavy rain killed at least 32 people in southern Ethiopia over the weekend, the government said on Monday.

The Government Communication Affairs Office (GCAO) said nine people died in the Gamo Gofa zone, with 17 injured.

The state-affiliated Fana Broadcast Corporate on Sunday reported that 23 people were killed in a landslide in the Sidama zone.

Six people were badly injured, Fana reported.

Countries across the Horn of Africa have recently struggled to cope with heavy rains.

Last week, flooding and strong winds caused by Cyclone Sagar killed at least 25 people in Djibouti and Somaliland, while heavy flooding left 21 dead in Somalia, according to the UN's humanitarian coordinator OCHA.

(AFP)


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10 minute hailstorm of "unprecedented violence" destroys 2,000 hectares of vineyards in Bordeaux


TheLocal.fr
Sat, 26 May 2018 12:00 UTC
Bordeaux hail grape vine
© AFPVines damaged and without leaves at a vineyard near Bordeaux following a violent storm in the region.
Winemakers in western France in the famed Bordeaux and Cognac areas were inspecting damage to their vines on Sunday after an "unprecedented" storm saw pebble-sized hailstones cause widespread destruction.

The bad weather struck around midday on Saturday in the Gironde area where many of France's most well-known red wines originate, as well as further north in the Charente and Charente-Maritime regions.

"It's a shock, it was a hailstorm of unprecedented violence for 10 minutes," the head of a winegrowers association in the Cotes-de-Bourg area, Didier Gontier, told Franceinfo radio on Sunday.

Comment: Footage of the hailstorm:




Crop losses around the world are mounting:

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Two years after '1-in-1,000-year event' floods Maryland, Ellicott City and Baltimore inundated AGAIN


RT
Sun, 27 May 2018 22:24 UTC
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Two years after '1-in-1,000-year event' floods Maryland, Ellicott City and Baltimore inundated AGAIN
Residents in the cities of Ellicott and Baltimore scrambled for safety as heavy rainfall brought flash flooding to the area. Videos posted on social media show raging torrents of water deluging neighborhoods.

A flash flood emergency was declared in Ellicott City on Sunday. A video posted by locals show the city's Main Street awash with muddy water. (WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE)


Comment: They called the 2016 inundation a '1-in-1,000-year event'. Yes, indeed, we are living through a '1-in-1,000-year event', but it's not what the media is telling you it is.

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Rain that caused deadly Maryland flood was another '1-in-1,000' year event

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 18:06 UTC
Ellicott City flooding
© WUSAFlooding destroyed parts of Ellicott City, Md. overnight.
The massive rainfall that caused a devastating flash flood in Ellicott City, Md., last weekend was a rare 1-in-1,000-year event that has been happening with unprecedented frequency in recent years, meteorologists said.

The storm, which killed two people, dumped 6.5 inches of rain on Ellicott City in only about 3 hours, with 5.5 inches falling in just 90 minutes, the National Weather Service said. One nearby spot recorded 8.22 inches, amounts that weather service meteorologist Greg Carbin called "off the charts."

Ellicott City picked up almost twice its monthly average rainfall of 3.5 inches Saturday night.

A 1-in-1,000-year rain event is a statistical way of expressing the probability of such a massive rainfall occurring in any given year in a given location, according to the National Center for Environmental Information, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In other words, it had a 1 in 1,000 chance of occurring in Ellicott City in any year.

This is at least the ninth "1-in-1,000" year rain event across the United States since 2010, and the third this year. Flooding in Houston in April killed eight people. And in June, 23 died in a in West Virginia flood caused by heavy rain.

So many "1-in-1,000 year" rainfalls appear unprecedented. "The number of these type of events has seemingly become more pronounced in recent years," meteorologist Steve Bowen of a global reinsurance firm Aon Benfield said in a tweet Monday.


Comment: More 'historical' flooding has affected countries all around the world this year. See also:

Floods around the world: USA, Mexico, Russia, China, France, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, Romania

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Wind and storm surge watches issued for Florida as Alberto continues northward trek

Jenny Staletovich
Miami Herald
Sat, 26 May 2018 12:45 UTC
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Wind and storm surge watches went up across the Florida Gulf coast late Friday as Alberto continued creeping north.

The western tip of Florida's Panhandle was at the center of the projected impact zone and while Alberto's strongest winds were expected to stay well offshore until then, forecasters cautioned the path potentially could shift over the next few days. Either way, much of the state, including the Florida Keys and mainland South Florida, was likely in for a holiday weekend drenching from a storm that formed before hurricane season officially begins on June 1.

Along the the southwest coast, surf and surge could also pile seawater atop the rain. And once it does makes landfall, forecasters were concerned it could stall and trigger worse flooding.

"When it gets inland, it will be a slow mover, so this could be a horrific flooding event up there," National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Signs in the skies of the Eddy Solar Grand Minimum


Adapt 2030
Sat, 26 May 2018 13:19 UTC
antisolar arc 2018
© Pål Tengesdal
Signs are appearing our skies that the atmosphere is changing as predicted with the gran solar minimum. Rare anti-solar arcs over Norway, Cyclone over Yemen and Oman, Green flashes in UK and Norway. Hawaii has blue flames as the Earth cracks and methane ignites and CO2 didn't cause warming in 1950-1980 even though it was increasing in concentration. A look at Wheeler's drought clock, another repeating cycle as well the grand solar minimum.


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Storms cause floods in parts of Belgium, France and Germany


FloodList
Thu, 24 May 2018 17:44 UTC
Floods in Heinsberg, Germany, 22 May 2018.
© Feuerwehr GangeltFloods in Heinsberg, Germany, 22 May 2018.
Storms across northern Europe have caused surface flooding in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and France, including the capital Paris.

The region has seen several violent storms over the last few days, in particular on 22 May, where Meteo France said that 13,964 lightning strikes were reported across the country.

The storms also brought hail - some areas of Germany have recorded hail 50 cm deep - strong winds and localised heavy downpours which have flooded streets and damaged homes. No fatalities have been reported.
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Floods in Tripura, India leave 15 dead, thousands displaced

Richard Davies
FloodList
Wed, 23 May 2018 16:46 UTC
Flood rescues in Tripura, India, May 2018.
© Tripura PoliceFlood rescues in Tripura, India, May 2018.
Fifteen people have lost their lives and thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes after flooding in the north-east Indian state of Tripura.

Rain has affected parts of the state since early May and state disaster management officials said that a total of 15 people have died in floods and landslides, with 24 injured and 11,704 displaced. Local media said that the overflowing Haora (Howrah) and Gumti (Gomati) rivers have forced many to evacuate their homes. Forty-five relief camps have been set up to house those displaced.

A storm on 06 to 07 May caused widespread damage in parts of West Tripura. However, most of the fatalities and evacuations across the state occurred from 17 May, 2018 after monsoon rain intensified.

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Paris hit by flash flooding and severe hailstorm


The Connexion
Wed, 23 May 2018 16:20 UTC
Drivers struggle on the Paris roads after rainfall caused flash floods
© Sylvie JohnssonDrivers struggle on the Paris roads after rainfall caused flash floods
The streets and Métro stations in Paris have been flooded after unseasonal storms brought heavy rainfall and strong hail to the capital - while strong hail further south in Vaucluse has destroyed crops.

The capital's streets looked more like rivers - and stairwells more like waterfalls - yesterday afternoon, with areas in the north and the west said to be most affected.

While temperatures remained at seasonal norms - at around 22°C for most of the day - hail battered the streets and settled, looking at times snow-like in consistency.

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