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Southern China still lashed by heavy rains, triggering second flood alert in as many days

Xinlu Liang
South China Morning Post
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:42 UTC
The water level at Yingde (5) Station in Yingcheng Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province reached 30.07 meters on the 7th, exceeding the warning level of 4.07 meters.
© CCTV NewsThe water level at Yingde (5) Station in Yingcheng Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province reached 30.07 meters on the 7th, exceeding the warning level of 4.07 meters.
Parts of southern China continued to be battered by heavy downpours over the weekend, with rainstorm and flood alerts issued for the second day on Sunday.

The Bei, a tributary of the Pearl River in southern Guangdong province, was declared as having recorded its first "No 1 Flood" of the year at 6.35am on Sunday - marking the earliest numbered flood in a major river since data began to be compiled in 1998.

China has seven main river systems, including the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, as well as the southern Pearl River and waterways further north.

According to the Ministry of Water Resources, China's major rivers and lakes can flag "numbered floods" when their water levels reach the warning level or register a flood of "once in two to five years" magnitude.

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Drone footage captures flooded bridges and roads in rural parts of south-west Queensland, Australia


Guardian
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:26 UTC
South West Aerial Services operator Alan MacDonald was able to view the levee bank's effectiveness from above, as the Warrego River reached its peak on Saturday.
South West Aerial Services operator Alan MacDonald was able to view the levee bank's effectiveness from above, as the Warrego River reached its peak on Saturday.
Footage captures flooding near the rural township of Charleville following a weekend of heavy rain in parts of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Communities across the region have been impacted by flooding, with some isolated by road closures.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the Warrego River gauge near Bakers Bend, in south-west Queensland, recorded a peak of 10.16m on Monday morning.


Source: Katrina Lehmann | Murweh Shire Council
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Storm kills 11 in 5 districts of Bangladesh


Bangladesh Post
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:24 UTC
Nor’wester wreaked havoc on Sunday
© Focus BanglaNor’wester wreaked havoc on Sunday morning in the riverside area of Lalmohan Dhaligauranagar Union in Bhola.
Eleven people died during nor'wester that swept Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Jhalakathi, Bhola, Khulna and Bagerhat districts on Sunday.

Among them, three people died in Jhalakathi, two each in Patuakhali, Pirojpur and Bhola districts and one each in Bagerhat and Khulna districts.

The seasonal storm lashed different parts of the country on Sunday morning, damaging crops, houses and uprooting trees.

Jhalakathi, three people including two women were killed while bringing cattle from fields in Sadar and Kathalia upazilas of the district.

Sufia Begum, 85, wife of Ahmed Pada of Char Algi village, was killed when a tree collapsed on her.

Bashir Ahmed, in-charge of Barishal Division Weather officer, said the met office recorded 15.2 mm of rainfall in the morning.

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15 goats killed, 3 tourists injured after being struck by lightning in Odisha, India

Subadh Nayak
kalingatv.com
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:05 UTC
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As many as 15 goats were killed while three tourists were injured after being struck by lightning in two separated places of Odisha.

According to reports, the 15 goats were killed at Batasasan village under Badagada police limits of Ganjam district this afternoon after lightning struck them.

Sources said that four locals of Batasasan village namely Krishna Gauda, Jaga Gauda, Manas Gauda and Bijay Gauda had taken a herd of goats to the nearby forest for grazing them. Though it was sunny when they left the house in the morning, but it rained heavily in the locality in the afternoon.
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Almost 200 flood rescues conducted after record rainfalls across New South Wales, Australia


abc.net.au
Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:15 UTC
More than a month's worth of rain fell across parts of eastern NSW on Friday, leading to fears of widespread flooding (pictured, Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches)
More than a month's worth of rain fell across parts of eastern NSW on Friday, leading to fears of widespread flooding (pictured, Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches)
Rain records have been broken across Sydney and the Illawarra region as NSW SES conducted almost 200 flood rescues.

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Deadly nor'easter wreaks havoc in New England as nearly 2 feet of spring snow falls in Vermont, New Hampshire

Steven Yablonski, Hillary Andrews, Aaron Barker, Andrew Wulfeck, Chris Oberholtz
Fox Weather
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:10 UTC
This graphic shows top snow totals in the Northeast so far.
© FOX WeatherThis graphic shows top snow totals in the Northeast so far.
At least four people have died in the storm that brought nearly 2 feet of snow to higher New England elevations and winds gusting to 70-85 mph, knocking out power to over 600,000 customers.

A deadly late-season nor'easter that has hammered the Northeast and New England with drenching rain, heavy snow and gusty wind continues to pummel the region Friday.

Snow will continue at times for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, but the worst of the weather should be on a downward trend by Saturday, the FOX Forecast Center said.

Tragically, two people lost their lives during the recent storm in Pennsylvania when trees fell onto their cars. One of the victims was an 82-year-old woman who was waiting at a stoplight in Collegeville on Wednesday when a tree fell and crushed her car.

A 70-year-old man was also killed when a tree fell onto his car in Aston Township late Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.

Another death was reported in New York when police say a tree fell onto a car on Route 128 in Armonk, killing the driver. Police said the driver was the only person in the car then and was later identified as the wife of a New York Yankees front office executive.

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Large waterspout looms over Lisbon bridge on March 28

Oliver Browning
Independent (UK)
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 12:05 UTC
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A large waterspout was spotted over a Lisbon bridge on Thursday 28 March.

The waterspout formed over the Vasco da Gama Bridge across the Tagus Estuary next to the Portuguese capital.

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Over a foot of spring snow in the Great Lakes, Appalachia

Lucy Bergemann
WeatherNation
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:15 UTC
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Heavy snow has been falling since Tuesday night in the Great Lakes - up over a foot for parts of the U.P.!

Snow continues into Thursday with the heaviest snow will be in the UP of Michigan where lake enhancement could help pile up close to a foot near Marquette where blizzard warnings were in effect at one point.

A few winter weather alerts linger through Thursday morning for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Schools closed, nearly 300,000 without power as spring storm rolls through Quebec, Canada


CBC News
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:53 UTC
A large tree branch blocking Bourbonnière Avenue, between Mont-Royal Avenue East and Rachel Street in Montreal's Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough.
© Simon-Marc Charron/Radio-CanadaA large tree branch blocking Bourbonnière Avenue, between Mont-Royal Avenue East and Rachel Street in Montreal's Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough.
A spring storm bringing heavy, wet snow swept through Quebec overnight, knocking out the lights for nearly 300,000 Hydro-Québec customers and shuttering schools in multiple areas.

All schools under the English Montreal School Board, the Lester B. Pearson School Board and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board are closed due to a mixture of snow and power outages.

Around a dozen schools with Montreal's French school service centre, the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM) are also closed, as well as some under the Riverside School Board in Longueuil, due to power outages.

As of Thursday morning, Hydro-Québec was logging 971 outages, affecting 281,116 customers across the province.

The most affected regions include Montreal, with more than 73,000 customers affected, followed by the Laurentians and the Montérégie, with more than 86,000 and and 41,000 customers in the dark, respectively.

Tens of thousands of people in the Outaouais, Laval and Lanaudière are also without power.

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Mudslides and floods in Quito, capital of Ecuador - at least one killed


telesurenglish.net
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:30 UTC
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© Daniel MolinerosThe vehicles were swept away by the landslide in La Gasca.
On Tuesday, floods and floods were reported in the area of La Gasca, Quito, capital of Ecuador. The situation appears to be similar to that of January 2022, when the waters claimed the lives of more than 20 people.

The waters began by taking Fulgencio Araujo and Antonio José de Sucre streets, where neighbors notified authorities of the presence of large amounts of water and mud coming down the street.

Mayor Pabel Muñoz and managers of technical teams from Quito are on the scene attending the emergency. Among the teams present are, Fire Department, Public Enterprise Metropolitan Mobility and Public Works, among others.

The Metropolitan Transit Agency (AMT) carried out closures on different roads such as Mariscal Sucre and America, which, according to AMT, still have large vehicular and pedestrian flows.

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