By DANIEL MONNERATApril 9, 2010 – 3:04AM Some 200 people were feared dead after being buried in mudslides near Rio de Janeiro, officials said Thursday, bringing new tragedy to Brazil following massive floods which have killed more than 150. “From what the neighbours said, some 200 people may be buried, but it is not clear, […]
By Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 04. 7.10 Between 8pm Monday night and 8am yesterday morning, almost twice as much rain fell on Rio de Janeiro than was expected for the entire month of April. Early reports have yet to assess the total number of casualties brought about by this highly unusual weather, […]
As rivers recede, thousands seek flood aid and disaster response organizations assess needs. BY SANDIE GARCIA | BALTIMORE | April 3, 2010 More than 11,000 residents of Rhode Island and Massachusetts have already applied for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following historic flooding that has hit the region. While some survivors will […]
By THOMAS HUNTERMarch 31, 2010 Hot and wet. That’s how the record books will remember Melbourne’s unseasonal March, the city’s hottest month in 36 years and its wettest in almost a decade, say meteorologists. Weatherzone.com.au‘s Samuel Terry said the wet weather set in early, with 37 millimetres falling in damaging showers over March 6 and […]
By Rob Gutro, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has been called a “flying rain gauge in space” because it measures rainfall from its orbit around the earth. This week, ex-tropical storm Paul gave TRMM a workout measuring heavy rainfall the storm left behind in areas of northern […]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — Decades of drought, interspersed with intense monsoon rains, may have helped bring about the fall of Cambodia’s ancient Khmer civilization at Angkor nearly 600 years ago, according to an analysis of tree rings, archeological remains and other evidence. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Airport delays, rising rivers and about-to-be-broken rainfall records BOSTON – The second major rain storm of the month pounded the Northeast on Tuesday with what meteorologists said could be record-setting rainfall, sending rivers toward flood stage, closing roads, delaying flights and causing a run on basement sump pumps. About 1,000 National Guard troops were ready […]
The number of days with record hot temperatures has increased each decade over the past 50 years. There have been fewer record cold days each decade. 2000 to 2009 was Australia’s warmest decade on record. State of the Climate [pdf] Technorati Tags: Australia,global warming,climate change,drought,flood,agriculture,sea level,freshwater depletion,heat wave
All of Australia has experienced warming over the past 50 years. Some areas have experienced warming since 1960 of up to 0.4ºC per decade resulting in total warming over the five decades of 1.5 to 2ºC Highly variable rainfall across the country, with substantial increases in rainfall in northern and central parts of Australia, as […]
By BILL HANNA, billhanna@star-telegram.com Monarch butterflies, hit hard by strong storms at their winter home in Mexico, have dwindled to their lowest population levels in decades as they begin to return to Texas on their springtime flight back to the United States and Canada. The monarch loss is estimated at 50 to 60 percent and […]
