Floods
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood - at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralysed Dubai this week, meteorologists have said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No one reports the type of flooding that on Tuesday doused the UAE, which often deploys the technology in an attempt to squeeze every drop of moisture from a sky that usually gives less than 10 to 13 centimetres of rain a year. "It's most certainly not cloud s...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) struggled to recover from intense storms on Thursday, which saw the heaviest-ever rainfall lash the desert nation. The UAE's main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and roads. Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, allowed global carriers on Thursday morning to again fly into Terminal 1 at the airfield. “Flights continue to be delayed and disrupted, so we urge you to only come to Terminal 1 if you have a confirmed booking,” the airport said on the social platf...
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The United Arab Emirates has been inundated with heavy rain, with major highways flooded and flights disrupted at Dubai International airport. Local media described the precipitation as a “historic weather event”, saying the amount of rain recorded surpassed anything documented since data collection started in 1949. Rain is unusual in the UAE but does occur periodically during the cooler winter months. Many roads and other areas lack drainage given the lack of regular rainfall. In the latest storm, Dubai reported 142mm of rain in a single day – the same amount the city typically expects in 18 ...
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Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a nearby river, local authorities said on Tuesday. Thousands to evacuate their homes in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometres southeast of Moscow, when a dam on the Ural River burst last week under the pressure of surging waters. Water levels in the river have since been fluctuating in different parts of the region. Experts have cited multiple possible causes of the floods: large snow reserves in the area melting, deep freezing of the soil which doesn’t allow it to absorb ra...
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The head of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations has visited the southern Orenburg region as it battles some of Russia's worst flooding in decades. Alexandar Kurenkov has been assessing the damage and inspecting efforts by emergency crews in the region, one of several that have been hit by the catastrophic floods. The disaster is believed to have been sparked by sudden warm snap that caused a mass snowmelt in the Ural Mountains and some parts of Siberia. Parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan have also been affected, and more than 100,000 people have been evacuated across the two countries. Aid...
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Kazakh local authorities have started blowing up artificial dams built by locals in an effort to bring down water levels in flooded areas. While levels are falling in the city of Kulsary in western Kazakhstan, more than 3,000 houses are still flooded, according to local TV station KZ24. To combat the flooding, local authorities started blowing up the dams that agricultural workers installed to collect water for farming and agriculture. In other affected areas, authorities including the military have been building temporary barriers, building dikes and filling sandbags to stop the water from fl...
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has called the situation in Russia and Kazakhstan "very, very tense" as fast-melting snow and ice swell rivers in Russia's southern Urals and northern Kazakhstan. Both countries have declared a state of emergency after battling the rising rivers for over five days. Kazakhstan has evacuated 96,272 people since the start of the floods. Russia itself has evacuated more than 7,000, mostly from the Orenburg region. The floods in Orenburg began with the collapse of a dam on Saturday. Although President Vladimir Putin is frequently shown on Russian state television ...
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Russians in the city of Orsk protested on Monday, demanding compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the Kazakhstan border. Protests are rare in Russia where authorities have consistently cracked down on any form of dissent following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds gathered in front of the administrative building in Orsk Monday, Russian state news agency Tass reported. Videos shared on Russian social media channels showed people chanting “Putin, help us,” and “shame.” The floods, caused by rising water levels in t...
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Ten regions of Kazakhstan have declared states of emergency after strong floods hit the entire northwest of the country. The flooding was sparked by a sudden and early period of warm weather that caused huge amounts of snow to melt and overfill numerous rivers across parts of Kazakhstan and Russia. Kazakh president Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev called the floods "the worst in 80 years". More than 72,000 people have been evacuated. The national army has been deployed on rescue and aid missions across the regions. On Sunday, Russia’s government declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg r...
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With temperatures rising in Europe at double the global average, policy makers' failure to keep pace with increasing extremes of weather could soon have “catastrophic” consequences, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warns in a disturbing new report as the EU executive prepares to unveil a climate resilience plan. In its first detailed climate risk assessment, published today (11 March), the Copenhagen-based EU agency has taken a detailed look at the frequency and intensity of drought, heatwaves and other weather phenomena and concluded there is a clear and present threat to life, livelihoo...
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