Not again! BoM issues Flood warning for Qld and NSW.
"A major rain event will engulf most of eastern Australia during the next 48 hours, prompting the Bureau of Meteorology to issue flood watches from southern Queensland to the NSW South Coast.
"Greater Sydney could be soaked by up to 200mm from late Thursday to early Saturday, potentially leading to major flooding along the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, while Brisbane and Canberra also face the prospect of heavy rain."
In Orenburg, Russia, meltwater flooded residential areas, and motorists made their way by swimming
Due to the flood, the Orenburg-Belyaevka highway was blocked, and the exit to the highway also went under water. Motorists have to swim to the junction to get out of the huge puddle, RosSMI writes.
The water is rising so quickly that several houses have already been flooded. People from them were evacuated. Local residents fear the situation will worsen. #AureFreePress#Russia
This week's #ExtremeWeather :
– freak path of Cyclone #Gamane veered into Madagascar, resulting in at least 11 deaths;
– significant flash #floods and a landslide in #Sumatra, Indonesia left at least 19 people dead with seven others missing;
– #Calima winds brought unseasonably high temperatures - and #SaharaDust - to Spain and Portuga, as well as Greece.
@ai6yr Indeed. For example, #farmers in Greece are still struggling with the aftermath of the devastating #floods brought by storm Daniel in their region.
#France#Weather#Flooding
French rescue workers searching for seven people, including two children, missing after violent storms swept the south of the country with most believed to have been swept away in cars on flooded streets / bridges.
After discovering a body in Gagnires, rescue workers found in Goudargues two lifeless bodies in a vehicle that had been swept away. Most likely, the two missing women who had called for help in the middle of the night before the phone connection was lost.
The search near Dions continues for the missing father and his two children (ages 4 and 13). The mother was found alive.
We have recently seen catastrophic fires in places that either are used to having them and dealing with them effectively, (California, Chile, Hawaii, Texas, Greece, Canary Islands, Spain, Italy) or in places that rarely have them (parts of Canada, UK). The fires are fed with high winds and extreme drought, are not able to be controlled, cause loss of human life and apocalyptic loss of the environment including animal and plant life. This is becoming more and more common and seasons are lasting longer or year round. The fires are burning deep under snow to spring back to life at first thaw.
So what can we do to minimize the danger to ourselves? There are a few things we can do and have been doing, but we must up the ante. Fire smart communities must go farther than sweeping leaves off patios and trimming trees. We need accelerated training of as many people as possible in firefighting and management. We need firebreaks around communities, and huge scale equipment such as community perimeter sprinklers and water reservoirs to go with them. We need massive organized groups that deal with evacuations, temporary housing, and rebuilding in the aftermath. We need regular folks to get trained and knowledgeable in a lateral way with professional firefighting. We need large scale plans of evac routes, plan B, plan C with emergency shelters for people, pets, livestock.
My family spent 1000s of dollars of savings and retirement money to have danger trees removed, power line avenues limbed and some brushing done this past summer. It's barely enough and we are broke now. The rest we must do ourselves as the brush grows, and the trees shed. But so many more people out there can't even afford that or have the means to do it themselves. We need taxes to pay for fire mitigation across the board, in every back yard and every community. We need to do this together. And we need to do this AT THE SAME TIME that we use less energy, travel less, consume less, as we transition rapidly away from any form of fossil fuel. It's hard, it's daunting, it's almost impossible, but not quite. Every area, every country has unique challenges to all of this, but if we on the ground all start now, today we might have a chance to make it better and survive.
#ClimateDiary Like many other parts of the UK East Sussex is completely soaked and in many places flooded at the moment. Just took these photos from train between Polegate and Lewes. #Floods
"The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water circulates between the ground, oceans and atmosphere.
The events of 2023 show how significant these disruptions have become. From extreme precipitation and flooding to drought and contaminated water supplies, almost every part of the U.S. faced some consequence of climate change and the shifting availability of water.
The water cycle controls every aspect of Earth’s climate system, which means that as the climate changes, so too does nearly every step of water’s movement on the planet. In some places, the availability of #water is becoming increasingly scarce, while in others, #climate change is intensifying rainfall, #floods & other extreme weather events.
“The feeding places that the bees used to go to [to collect pollen and nectar], such as acacias, paliuruses and oaks were all destroyed. The future is uncertain in beekeeping, there is no place to go, all the places have been destroyed,”
“After the wildfires and the floods, beekeeping has regressed a long way. Bees are disappearing,”
Climate change deniers are especially infuriating to me as someone who has experienced the effects of it firsthand.
The insanely high number of historic floods happening at a never before seen frequently and destroying people’s lives makes it very personal. #climatechange#environmentalism#pol#floods
A boy looks on as he swims in an area affected by floods due to the overflowing of the Batanghari River at Sungai Bungur village in Muaro Jambi, Jambi province, Indonesia, February 20. Antara Foto/Wahdi Septiawan/via REUTERS