“The death toll due to flash floods in Afghanistan reached 56 Thursday with 30 people still missing, officials said.
“Around 1,000 houses got damaged in days of heavy rains and flash floods across the war-ravaged country.
“Tamim Azimi, a disaster management ministry spokesperson, told EFE that 56 people were confirmed dead.”
https://www.laprensalatina.com/afghan-flash-flood-toll-increases-to-56/
“Urban and rural areas in eight provinces of Iran have been affected by spring floods that have killed at least 10 people over the past days.
“The heavy rainfalls have resulted in flash floods in the provinces of Isfahan, Yazd, Sistan and Balouchestan, South Khorasan, Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, Semnan and Tehran.”
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2021/05/05/2497338/flash-floods-hit-8-iranian-provinces
“…more than 80 percent of Somalia is facing drought conditions in the mid of the primary Gu rainy season. Yet, flash floods have been reported in the last two days following heavy and sporadic rains in [Hargeisa] Somaliland.”
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Gbtr_0RwY
“Western Cape storm [South Africa]: 2 dead, 2 missing, evacuations and rescues…
“‘it was complete chaos’…
“Rivers are swelling and flooding their banks and this is expected to continue over the next day or two…”
“Jordan facing ‘one of the most severe’ droughts in its history.
“Experts say Jordan is now in the grip of one of the most severe droughts in its history, but many warn the worst is yet to come.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/5/6/drought-hit-jordan-critical-as-water-sources-dry-up
“Europe shivered through coldest April in decades, and it’s not relenting… The United Kingdom saw its coldest average low temperature in April since 1922…
““This was a shockingly cold month, the coldest April in my lifetime, and remarkably fell after record breaking heat at the very end of March,” wrote Scott Duncan, a London-based meteorologist, in an email.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/05/europe-cold-april-2021/
“Wildfire In Heiðmörk Dangerously Close To Reykjavík’s Water Supply…
“The first four months of the year were the driest in Reykjavík for more than a quarter of a century… Reykjavík’s and Kópavogur’s water source is in the immediate vicinity of the area that burned yesterday.”
“A man-made disaster has created a manatee famine throughout Florida… Up and down the Sunshine State, manatees, the gentle giants of the inland waterways, are dying en masse. They are, in fact, starving to death…
“Decades of conservation success have given way to jumbles of bones and rotting carcasses all around Florida.”
“A cemetery that was submerged by the construction of a dam has reappeared from the depths of a reservoir in Sinaloa [Mexico] due to severe drought…
“One of the largest in the state, the reservoir is at only 11.2% of its capacity, according to a report by released Monday by the National Water Commission.”
“Editorial: There is no drought [in California]…
“What we have now is no deviation. It is the norm itself. Our climate has changed. As much water falls from the sky as before, but at different times and in different ways.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-there-is-no-drought
“A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year, the National Park Service said Wednesday.
““The fact areas are still smoldering and smoking from the 2020 Castle Fire demonstrates how dry the park is,” said Leif Mathiesen, assistant fire management officer…”
“Flood threats persist as storms continue to drench south…
“Relentless wind and rain keeps pummeling much of the southeastern United States spawning tornadoes, sparking a flash flood emergency in Alabama and damaging homes from Texas to Virginia.”
“How much rain fell on Alabama Tuesday? Some cities got nearly 8 inches…
“A weather service map of 1-day observed precipitation suggests areas in Shelby County got 6 to 8 inches of rain on Tuesday.”
https://www.al.com/news/2021/05/just-how-much-rain-did-alabama-get-on-tuesday.html
“Fifteen cows were killed when lightning struck a family farm in Alabama as severe weather moved through the area, according to an emergency management director.”
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article251176559.html
“Don’t be shocked! Tuesday’s storms were the most electric in more than 4 years.
“Tuesday’s storms were absolutely electric. Nearly 4.5 million lightning events were detected, which is the busiest the skies have been since May 20, 2017, according to experts who follow the charge.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/05/weather/lightning-weather-storms-severe-southeast/index.html
“Seattle’s new ‘normal’: Warmer and wetter…
“The 2010s saw a vast majority of its months coming in warmer and wetter than normal in the Emerald City. 2015 was the warmest year on record in Seattle and just about every month’s record for warmest average temperature was set in the last decade.“
https://www.q13fox.com/weather/seattles-new-normal-warmer-and-wetter
“Morden [Manitoba] restricts water usage amid severe drought, while farmers fret over parched soil conditions…
“A dry fall, winter and now spring have taken a toll in southern Manitoba, where the City of Morden says it is experiencing a severe drought and imploring people to conserve water.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/morden-severe-drought-manitoba-1.6016109
“Flooding at Caribou Crossing as record Yukon snowpack melts.
“”All of the buildings for the tourism operations, our museums — they’ve had water in them. Our animal yards are all under water, so all of our walkways, our boardwalks. There are millions of gallons in here,” said General Manager Dale Colbran on Tuesday.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/caribou-crossing-yukon-flooding-snow-1.6015571
“Salmon Harvest [Southeast Alaska] Will Push Whales Toward Extinction, Court Told.
“The National Marine Fisheries Service approved salmon harvest levels for fisheries in southeast Alaska that will hinder the recovery of the fish and starve southern resident killer whales, a fish conservation group told a federal court in Washington.”
“The cause of death has been determined for the fifth whale that recently washed onto shore in San Francisco.
“Scientists say the endangered fin whale died from blunt force trauma from a ship strike.”
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/cause-of-death-determined-for-5th-whale-washed-onto-sf-shore/
“Mongolia’s National Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday issued a warning of forest and grassland fires.
“The weather is very dry in most parts of Mongolia, which faces high risks of wildfires, the emergency agency said.”
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/269243816/mongolia-issues-warning-of-wildfires
“Beijing faces rare May sandstorm with high wind gusts.
“Beijing is braving a sandstorm that caused high air pollution levels on Thursday afternoon with level nine wind gusts in some areas, a rare phenomenon for this time of the year.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222843.shtml
“Tornado causes destruction in Hengshan, Jixi, China…
“May 5th 2020.”
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktYn5Hoqw0o
“Some households in Taiwan are going without running water two days a week after a months-long drought dried up the island’s reservoirs and a popular tourist lake.
“Authorities are drilling extra wells and using military planes to dump cloud-seeding chemicals in hopes of triggering rain. The government has allocated money to extract drinkable water from the sea.”
“Death toll in Indonesian power plant landslide [Sumatra] rises to 10…
“A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck the Chinese-backed Batang Toru hydropower plant on Thursday last week, burying an estimated 13 people.”
“Global heating pace risks ‘unstoppable’ sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts…
“The current pace of global heating risks unleashing “rapid and unstoppable” sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet [rapidly accelerating circa 2060, they suggest], a new research paper has warned.”
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