Iran had disastrous spring floods in 2019, too:
“Flooding in Iran caused by heavy rainfall has left 21 people dead and one missing, an emergency services spokesman said Wednesday, even as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic.
“Mojtaba Khaledi told Iran’s ISNA news agency that 22 people had also been injured, with most of the casualties in southern or central provinces. He said 11 people had died in Fars province, three each in Hormozgan and Qom, two in Sistan and Baluchistan province, and one each in Bushehr and Khuzestan.”
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2211186/iran-floods-leave-dozens-casualties
Pakistan has been having similar issues:
“Seven people were killed and eight others received injuries in rain-related incidents in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday… Torrential rains also damaged crops and fruits in the district.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1545714/seven-killed-eight-injured-in-roof-collapse-incidents
“COVID-19 on one hand, Karnataka [India] seems poised to face another crisis that comes with a harsh summer: drought and the resultant shortage of drinking water…
“by the noise over COVID-19 is the fact that nine districts — Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, Kolar, Chikballapur, Tumakuru, Ramanagara, Chitradurga, Davangere and Haveri — have slipped into a drinking water problem.”
“A rural support agency says the COVID-19 lockdown is adding more pressure on farmers [NZ] who are already struggling with drought conditions.
“The Waikato Primary Industries Cluster met online to take stock of the continuing drought and new challenges arising from the coronavirus response.”
“This past month was the wettest month of March on record in Midland [Texas], according to the National Weather Service.
“The 3.44 inches drowned the previous high mark – 2.86 inches in 1970 – and was nearly six times the average.”
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/NWS-Record-March-rainfall-is-nearly-6-times-the-15173015.php
“In some cities across the southern United States, March 2020 will enter the weather history books as the warmest on record.
“During a typical March, much of the continental United States can have wild temperature swings, as the seasons are changing from Winter to Spring. During March 2020, however, a good swath of the southern United States stayed consistently warm.”
https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/march-2020-set-records-in-the-south/
Record cold weather in Hungary after a record warm winter:
“A daily record-low temperature was reported for the second consecutive day on Thursday morning, the national weather service said. The previous record for April 2 was minus 8.6 degrees Celsius, registered in Zabar, in northern Hungary, in 2005.”
https://hungarytoday.hu/record-low-temperature-reported-for-second-consecutive-day/
“Twenty people have been killed by a lightning strike on high-voltage power lines in the Republic of Congo.
“Authorities said the incident happened in the capital Brazzaville on the first day of a lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus.”
https://africafeeds.com/2020/04/02/congo-20-killed-by-lightning-strike-during-covid-19-lockdown/
“Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.
“A team from the UK and Germany discovered forest soil from the Cretaceous period within 900 km of the South Pole. Their analysis of the preserved roots, pollen and spores shows that the world at that time was a lot warmer than previously thought.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200401130825.htm
“Denman Canyon is located in East Antarctic and descends at least 3,400 metres below sea level, making it the deepest point on continental Earth. While several kilometres below the surface, it is entirely filled with ice that flows in from the Denman Glacier.
“A new study finds that the melting Denman Glacier would not only threaten to flood this canyon, but it could cause global sea levels to rise by 1.5 m.”
“… Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, which owns the mine, wants to expand the operation by doubling its output to 12 million metric tons a year, and, starting in 2025, more than doubling that again to 30 million metric tons.
“That means two to four times as many ships carrying the ore through the icy waters, as well as the construction of a new rail line…”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042020/baffin-island-canada-arctic-iron-ore-mine-black-carbon
“The current coronavirus pandemic, despite likely originating with an animal-to-human crossover far from the Arctic Circle, has come at a particularly weighty moment for infectious disease.
“As the Arctic warms twice as fast as the rest of the world, its ground is starting to thaw. With that thaw, bacteria and viruses once buried in the permafrost could increasingly emerge from a long hibernation.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/157129/next-pandemic-hiding-arctic-permafrost
“The heating climate will likely have greater impacts on extreme heat and weather than history suggests or science has predicted, according to a climate scientist who studies the relationship between climate and weather events.
““Global warming is actually causing a more rapid intensification of heat waves and heavy rainfall events than what we would expect just looking at the historical trends,” Earth Systems Professor Noah Diffenbaugh says…”
“With the world currently on track for catastrophic temperature increases, the two-week summit had been meant to galvanise a renewed international commitment to an accord brokered in Paris in 2015 aimed at stabilising the Earth’s climate.
“But with the British hosts and other countries struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which has brought large sections of the global economy to a standstill, officials decided to push the summit back to give governments more time to prepare.”
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