Heavy winter snow and ice finally melts into Lake Michigan along the Milwaukee Harbor along the lakefront.
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Heavy winter snow and ice finally melts into Lake Michigan along the Milwaukee Harbor along the lakefront.
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The state's wet conditions come as much of the West is experiencing weird weather. Colorado and Wyoming got an unusually late dump of snow this week. Meanwhile temperatures in Phoenix have dropped 15 degrees below normal.
Large swaths of California have seen two to five times more precipitation than is normal for this point in May, the National Weather Service said. A series of storms soaked much of Colusa County where rice grower Kurt Richter was forced to wait weeks to seed his land.
"You should be seeing green lawns of rice out there right now," Richter said Tuesday from his farm about 120 miles north of San Francisco. "But it's just flooded fields, with nothing sticking out of the water."
At least 24 people have been killed in a wave of torrential rainfall and flooding that has pounded Iran for the past two weeks, local officials say.
According to Mojtaba Khaledi, a spokesman for Iran's emergency services, four people were killed by flooding while another 20 lost their lives after having been struck by lightning.
Fifty-five others, Khaledi said, had been injured by severe flooding.
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Taxi caught in flood waters in Beitou underpass.
Taxi caught in flood waters in Beitou underpass.
As of noon today (May 20), the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport has reported that 18 flights have been affected by the inclement weather. Of those 18 flights, 7 were flights which had to be diverted to other airports including, Kaohsiung International Airport, reported CNA.
Flooding occurred in an underpass below Zhongyang North Road and Ligong Street in Taipei's Beitou District, causing a taxi to become trapped inside. The driver was able to successfully escape from his vehicle and police have since cordoned off the underpass on both sides.
The river Losse burst its banks in Hesse
Heavy rain and thunderstorms, mainly in southern and central Germany, have left rivers overflowing and streets flooded. A man was reported to have died in the Bavarian town of Aurach on Tuesday after his car skidded off the highway.
The heaviest rainfall was recorded on Germany's southern border with Austria. The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) weather service reported that some locations in the region experienced a month's worth of rain in 48 hours. Areas in western Austria and eastern Switzerland were also affected by the storm.
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A woman carries her belongings in a flooded street, after heavy rains caused Paraguay River to overflow, in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay.
A woman carries her belongings in a flooded street, after heavy rains caused Paraguay River to overflow, in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Winter seasonal rains have taken a toll on Paraguayans, as overflowing of the Paraguay River in the country's capital city, Asuncion has affected 12,500 families since May 10.
Authorities from the Directorate of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) explained that in the last 24 hours, the river rose about five centimeters, overflowing and reaching 7.25 meters and flooding riverside communities.
The Municipality of Asuncion reported that 12,583 families have been displaced by the flood. About 11,000 are now settled in the 118 shelters enabled in several points of the capital city. According to the National Emergency Secretariat (SEN), a total of 62,119 families are affected by the floods in Paraguay due to stronger rains since last week.
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Vehicles drive through a flooded road following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen.
Vehicles drive through a flooded road following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen.
In Oman, images out of Muscat's international airport showed very strong downpours on Sunday evening. Visibility was reduced to several hundred metres and flights were delayed while the storms moved through.
A bit further south in Oman, the town of Sur has picked up 66mm of rain in the last 48 hours. This is well above average for the month of May when the town would normally only see about 1.7mm.
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A family of 6, including a 28-day-old baby boy, were reported missing after their car was swept away in a flooded wadi in Oman.
According to the Times of Oman, the Indian family are feared dead after their day trip took a turn for the worst. The father of the family -- Sardar Fazal Ahmed -- recounted how the tragedy unfolded. The Oman-based expat said that he managed to hold on to a palm tree branch and pull himself out of the fast-flowing waters in Wadi Bani Khalid.
According to the Red Cross report, the flooding struck after a sudden torrential downpour that lasted several hours. Six communes in the city were affected, in particular Niamakoro where 10 fatalities were reported. Flood water was up to 2.5 metres deep in some locations.
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