Meteorologists are concerned about unusually high rains in a series of countries throughout the world. China and India, who are neighbours, have shattered all three-day rainfall records. Hundreds of millions of people remain trapped. This month has also experienced record rainfall in Germany. Climate change, according to experts, is causing such a global disaster.
It is termed to be very heavy rain if it rains 200 millimetres in a day. From Thursday night to Friday morning, Maharashtra, India, experienced 800 mm of rain. Never in the history of the coastal state has there been so much rainfall.
Floods and landslides have afflicted many people in Maharashtra as a result of the excessive rainfall. In the impacted areas, about 100 people are still missing. Over a million and a half people have been evacuated to safe-havens.
In the nearby Chinese province of Henan, India got extraordinary rains just three days earlier. A record of 200 mm of rain in one hour has been set. According to Chinese meteorologists, it rains once every thousand years. Rainwater has caused all of the city’s flood protection systems to fail. There is still water up to the throat somewhere in Henan. The search for the missing and victims is still underway. Experts attribute such unusual behaviour in nature to human civilisation.
The recent disastrous floods and rainfall around the world, according to Johnny Shan, a lecturer at Hong Kong City University, are the latest evidence of global warming. The temperature of the earth’s water rises in tandem with the temperature of the atmosphere. Storms will be more likely since more water will evaporate than at other periods. Floods and landslides can occur anywhere, not just in developed or developing countries.
In early July, several industrialized countries in Europe, including Germany, were struck by catastrophic floods. While natural disasters such as floods and storms are widespread, analysts are concerned about the severity of their consequences.
The only way to transform the way humans live, according to Miranda Sherras, a professor at the University of Munich, is to minimize their reliance on fossil fuels. You must learn that approach if you want nature to be tranquil. Natural calamities require different countries to learn how to deal with them. Let us not forget that the current tragedy in the world will eventually become more fatal.
Water has been the cause of half of all natural disasters in the world over the last five decades, according to a report released by the United Nations on Friday (July 23rd). Droughts, storms, and floods have killed almost 1.3 million people worldwide in the last 50 years.
