yikes!
Apocalyptic
and more rain to come...
Some of the images out of Greece are incredible!
More flooding; the Western/Eastern Mediterranean sides of that Omega block getting a battering these last couple of days, as the high builds in between and moves North (if I am correct?).
Yeah Desmond is the only red rainfall warning Ireland has had (Connacht, Clare, Kerry, Donegal). Malin Head on 22nd August 2017 was another red warranted fall.
I am surprised the rain in November 2009 was not a red warning. There was flooding from it on roads I had never seen flooded before or since then.
Storm Daniel that flooded Greece earlier in the week is breaking up over the Libyan desert now but not before it causes flooding in Libya too.
https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1700923901650338194?s=46&t=fSFmAewSnXvwVSqBkuk57w
Global warming may increase destructive potential of hurricanes in the Mediterranean
😲 Pretty shocking stuff from Libya. Death toll could reach 'several thousand'!
10,000 missing
Huge death toll, two dams broke. Must have been like a massive tsunami.
This is one event that really did end up making the news. It looks like it could end up being the most destructive tropical storm in a long time due to the burst dams near Derna.
This dam is totally gone as you can see from some of the videos posted on google maps. https://goo.gl/maps/xtxxGeWu2bHyH9xU7
Sadly the death toll increased significantly and might double.
So the dam was not properly maintained over the years, which if true means much of this devastation could have been avoided. I can't comprehend the suffering the relatives of these victims endure. Of course no one will be held to account for this in a country like Libya. We moan in this country, but we are very lucky that our weather is mostly benign and that we don't get natural disasters like Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Well we do get Earthquakes but they are usually so minor no one really notices them
Death toll could reach 20,000
Most of the thousands of deaths in the Libya floods could have been avoided, the UN's World Meteorological Organization say.
Warnings should have been issued, leading to evacuations, "and we could have avoided most of the human casualties.
Poorly maintained dams in a very neglected area, exceptional rainfall and no warnings/evacuation. I read this city has no functioning hospital either, a house with 5 bedrooms was being used as a hospital before this catastrophe. Just an awful situation.
I wonder what the likelihood of Ireland suffering from extreme rainfall would be? I mean so bad it leads to huge floods and loss of agricultural capabilities like in Greece.
The likelihood of loosing agricultural capabilities would be low I'd imagine. Often some quarters loathe farmers for draining land but the efficiency of how they have done this means overall risks are low. However, urban areas and especially where housing estates have been built upon what were traditional flood plains in the 1800s before modern drainage practices came into force means they are at risk now. The stranglehold that environmentalist groups have put over managing watercourses means that river dredging is now a very rare occurrence, this means going forward that moderate let alone severe rainfall events will pose a greater risk of causing disruption and indeed destruction as the river beds fill up with ever more amounts of silt, tree bows and other objects to hinder the natural flow of water back to the ocean - who needs beavers, eh!
I part this comment with three photographs from Burrowbridge, Somerset in the UK to elaborate the point made...
Flash floods in Devon under Amber rain warning.
https://twitter.com/ChrisPage90/status/1703397481365618803?t=V7I-kn0mqtXkTT-UWsJ7Zw&s=19
Tornado spotted moments ago Ernée in Mayenne, north-western France
https://x.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1703444927265300778?s=20
^^ that's a tornado. You can see the debris being picked up from the ground.
Is this a rare phenomenon for NW France?
After France recorded its 4th hottest summer since 1900 this September is provisionally the hottest September (21.5c)on record since records began in 1900.
This month is thus exceptional with an average temperature of more than 3.6 degrees above normal 1991-2020 (provisional value on September 25). Only 2 months ended with such a hot thermal anomaly: February 1990 (+4.0 °C) and August 2003 (+3.7 °C).
Its temperature will be very close to that of June 2023 (2nd warmest month of June), and will be higher than the monthly normals of July and August (21.1 °C).
In places, anomalies reach or exceed more than 4 degrees compared to normals 1991-2020, such as in Centre-Val-de-Loire, Île-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, or Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
France experienced an unprecedented heat episode from September 3 to 11 during which temperatures were between +4 and +6 °C above normal. Maximum temperatures exceeding 30 °C have been extremely frequent and spread over a large part of the country.
This episode, which affected almost all regions, was exceptional in its intensity and duration over a large northern half of the country for the end of the summer period.
This episode, from the Southwest to the Centre and Île-de-France, then the North, the West and finally the Northeast of the country. Several regions such as Île-de-France, Normandy or Brittany experienced higher temperatures during this episode than those measured during the 2023 meteorological summer.
On September 7, Météo-France placed 14 departments on orange heat wave vigilance, the first orange vigilance for the heat wave phenomenon, beyond the summer season, since its establishment in 2004.
At the end of September, mercury rises again on the hexagon. The 30 °C mark is again crossed throughout the southern half of the country.
Throughout the month of September, many monthly temperature records (minimum and high maximum) were thus broken.
Yemen about to get 10 years of rain in one go, yikes
Mexico going to get a hammering winds of 165 mph
https://news.sky.com/story/hurricane-otis-powerful-storm-with-165mph-winds-hits-mexican-beach-resort-in-nightmare-scenario-12992126
Looks like Acapulco got a real battering from Otis
This thread has gone quiet, but Munich and Bavaria got a pasting already this December. Now, they're used to snow, but not 50cm of it this early in December.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/02/snow-chaos-southern-germany-munich-airport-suspends-flights
Some rough weather for Queensland today.
Potentially record cold on the way for a big chunk of China https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1217/1422471-china-weather/
