More rains in the south of #Brazil
" The deluge – which experts link to climate change exacerbated by the El Niño weather phenomenon – has affected almost 2 million people, leaving 116 dead and 756 injured. Another 143 people are still missing, according to authorities. "
The deluge – which experts link to climate change exacerbated by the El Niño weather phenomenon – has affected almost 2 million people, leaving 116 dead and 756 injured. Another 143 people are still missing, according to authorities.
"Persistent rains and destructive flooding in the southern Brazilian state have left 150 people dead, 2.1 million affected, 620,000 residents #displaced and 807 people injured.
The Guaíba River in #PortoAlegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, could reach unprecedented levels of over 18 feet in the coming days, according to local officials.
"As #climate-driven disasters become more regular and more extreme, inevitably more people will be displaced by those events.""
"As the atmosphere warms, it can carry more water.
In fact, we are already observing this. Compared with the floods in 1941, this time the excessive rainfall was concentrated in a much shorter period, meaning the water rose much faster. Future climate projections already indicate that a warmer atmosphere results in an intensification of the flying rivers from the Amazon into south Brazil and adjacent regions, and more precipitation."
"Three weeks after one of #Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.
“These rains were typical of the climate crisis: very intense, with a large volume of water concentrated in a short period”, said Anderson Ruhoff"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll#GlobalWarming
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Flooded #Brazil 'ghost town' a climate warning to world, UN advisor says
"Roughly 389,000 people in the state of Rio Grande do Sul remain displaced from their home because of the intense rain and flooding, which local officials say was the worst disaster in the region's history.
"[#PortoAllegre] was underwater for almost 40 days. There wasn't even any rats running around. Everything had died." "
40 days.
That's what you might call "biblical".
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